Erm... where have the image thingys gone?

[Mozzer]

You know, the little yellow boxes with text in them that appear when you hover over an image with your mouse... where have they gone?

I know that in firefox it won't register image alt tabs - you have to use title tags. But that's not a problem here; I know all the forum's images have title tags by looking at their properties. They used to work and now they don't.

For some reason though they do pop up on the www.getfirefox.com website. Any ideas?

[Youlikeyams?]

They work for me. If it's a sig image it probably wont work.
Otherwise they should.
Try hovering over your avatar.

[Mozzer]

...No result. :(

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[MONKEY050]

By the way, those are commonly called tooltips.

Can you tell us what you did to try to fix it in order to supress the "Restart." "Close and re open" or "try reinstalling." replies?

[reno]

For future reference, they're called "ToolTips."

Just thought I'd tell you. Not alot of people seem to know that :/

So when going through your settings, look for a "tooltips" checkbox somewhere.

[Youlikeyams?]

Is it only happening in Firefox?

[Eccles]

From the firefox official FAQ:

Where are the image tooltips?

Many sites use the alt HTML property to display tooltips for images. This is wrong. The correct property to use for tooltips is title. The alt property has a very important purpose, which is to provide replacement text for images in browsers that cannot or do not (by user's choice) display images, and if graphical browsers display them as tooltips people will be discouraged from using them for their correct purpose. For more information about this, read Mozilla Bug 25537. In other words, it's up to the web developers to use the right HTML property for tooltips.

The TITLE property is used on www.getfirefox.com instead of ALT, which is why that site does show tooltips.

There are a number of extensions that change the tooltip behavior, have you recently removed or disabled any? Or maybe an extension has stopped functioning. Anyway you can get this functionality using an extension. I think "All-in-one Gestures" will display the ALT tag as a tooltip, but don't quote me on that!

[Mozzer]

Monkey, the problem has been occuring for several days now and between sessions the issue has not been fixed. Oh, and I have tried re-installing.

Reno, I can't see any information about tooltips or anything of the sort in the settings menu.

Yams, I can see the tooltips on Internet Explorer but I expect they're coming up as a result of the image ALT tags rather than the TITLE tags.

Just to clarify for everyone: on the www.getfirefox.com I can see the tooltips...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v161/MOzzer/tooltips.png

Note that my mouse was over the "products" button and the TITLE info in the image properties reflects the tooltip.

However, on this very forum, no dice!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v161/MOzzer/tooltips2.png

Note that this time my mouse was over Eccle's Avatar but there is no tooltip, despite the image having a TITLE tag.

Strange, no?

EDIT: Well, would you believe it? It turns out Google Toolbar is very picky when it comes to which images it lets Firefox display tooltips for... now that is odd.

[Eccles]

Actually the avatars don't have the TITLE element:

<a href="member.php?u=24682"><img src="images/avatars/dilbert7ps.gif" alt="Eccles's Avatar" border="0" /></a>

As you can see only ALT is used. The properties dialog seems to be a bit inconsistent in this case.

The getfirefox site uses:

<a href="../../products/" title="All software Mozilla currently offers">Products</a>