change title appearance

Giacomo

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Jan 29, 2008, 10:16:04 AM1/29/08

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Hi,
is possible to change for example <a href="" title="something
descriptive"> title appearance?
I mean, is possible to change the background color or the font-weight
or other parameters?

thanks a lot
bye,

Devon Miller

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Jan 29, 2008, 5:36:37 PM1/29/08

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Yes, what you want to look at are the dynamic pseudo classes for A.

http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/selector.html#dynamic-pseudo-classes

Note: In IE the dynamic pseudo classes are only supported on the A tag. Firefox will let you use them with any tag enclosing content (ie, you can't apply them to BR ot HR tags).

dcm

http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/selector.html#dynamic-pseudo-classes

Giacomo

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Jan 30, 2008, 11:34:32 AM1/30/08

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On 29 Gen, 18:36, "Devon Miller" <devon.c.mil...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, what you want to look at are the dynamic pseudo classes for A.
>
> http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/selector.html#dynamic-pseudo-classes

:-/

This is not exactly what I mean.
I'd like to change the appearance of the tooltip box that appear when
i write the "title" option into any tag.

Ideas?

thanks

Devon

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Feb 6, 2008, 7:20:56 PM2/6/08

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The presentation of the title as a tooltip is a function of the
browser and is not controlled by HTML or CCS.

Eric Meyers takes a different approach: http://meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/popups/demo.html
which can work quite nicely, but with a distinctly non-platform look &
feel.

John Gallant & Holly Bergevin have built on Meyers' work and can come
close to a platform look & feel http://www.communitymx.com/content/article.cfm?page=1&cid=4E2C0

dcm

Giacomo

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Feb 7, 2008, 9:40:45 AM2/7/08

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In 6 Feb, 20:20, Devon <devon.c.mil...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The presentation of the title as a tooltip is a function of the
> browser and is not controlled by HTML or CCS.

ok, it's true

> Eric Meyers takes a different approach:http://meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/popups/demo.html
> which can work quite nicely, but with a distinctly non-platform look &
> feel.

ok, great!

> John Gallant & Holly Bergevin have built on Meyers' work and can come
> close to a platform look & feelhttp://www.communitymx.com/content/article.cfm?page=1&cid=4E2C0

this seems the nicer idea! Thanks a loot. I'll give you five! (stars :)

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