Image "Alt" tags not working

[terrycr]

For some reason I can not post anything? Not sure why? I wanted to get feedback on the following:
For the life of me I can not figure out why the "alt" text does not show up on my images when you mouse over them. The website is: www.rookaps.com
Here is an example of how I coded throughout the site:

<div style="position:absolute;left:461;top:86;width:197 ;height:26;">
<img src="rookaps001006.gif" title="" alt="Replace Your Lost Flash Drive Cap" align="top" border="0" vspace="0" hspace="0">
</div>

Help... am I missing something?

[Lchad]

you need to close the image /> at the end

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<img src="rookaps001006.gif" title="" alt="Replace Your Lost Flash Drive Cap" align="top" border="0" vspace="0" hspace="0"/>

All the border=0 vspace= and hspace is not xhtml strict 1.0 appropriate.

[terrycr]

Thanks -- I'm almost embarassed to say this, but I didn't know img tags had to be closed. Thanks.

[Lchad]

Just thinking depending on the doc type you are using, you may not..
hmmmmm.. maybe I spoke too soon. Let me know if it works.
Also if you aren't going to fill in the title="" then delete it.

[Lchad]

Just peeked at your code and you don't have a doc type -
check this out.http://www.w3.org/QA/2002/04/valid-dtd-list.html

[terrycr]

Closing the <img> tags worked. Thanks!

[Lchad]

Great... your welcome!

[karinne]

One pet peeve of mine is people calling the alt attribute an alt tag!!! Ugh ... it's an attribute!

It's Ok ... I'm ok now

[Lchad]

Oh man... I'll never learn all of this!!! NEVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[daygon]

some people just dont take the time. but we forgive you anyway. We all know karinne is picky like that. But you know we gotta love her too.

[moojoo]

Anything contained within a tag is an attribute, anything defining the tag is a tag. i.e. <a> is a tag while title="" alt="" would be an attribute to a tag. Bleh.

[Lchad]

Thank you Professor Moojoo.. that was an excellent lesson!

[jansoft]

I never close img tags, half of the sites I developed don't have a DTD, and I never had a problem with alt tags. All working.

[Lchad]

Well then you will learn a lot here. That's rule #1, use a doc type!
http://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/Doctype

[JacobHaug]

hahaha....you just described most web designers. Sad really, they don't take the time to design sites correctly using the proper coding. In fact most of them use TABLES...horribly uninformed.

[Ryan Fait]

Originally Posted by jansoft

I never close img tags, half of the sites I developed don't have a DTD, and I never had a problem with alt tags. All working.

Lol, and that's why the internet is moving forward so slowly.

[daygon]

that why people should hire professionals that know what they're doing.

[jansoft]

Originally Posted by daygon

that why people should hire professionals that know what they're doing.

Aha. Take a look at cnn.com (for example, or any popular web site where budget is not a deal I suppose) source and you won't see any any closed img tag. I don't think that oranizations like this don't have the professionals.

In fact, closing or not tags like img, link, etc (all these tags that do not have an associative end tag) it has to do with HTML or XHTML. So if DTD is defined as HTML, then not closing these tags is fine. But if DTD is defined as XHTML these tags must be closed. (although internet explorer handles everything correctly).

[daygon]

Originally Posted by jansoft

Aha. Take a look at cnn.com (for example, or any popular web site where budget is not a deal I suppose) source and you won't see any any closed img tag. I don't think that oranizations like this don't have the professionals.

In fact, closing or not tags like img, link, etc (all these tags that do not have an associative end tag) it has to do with HTML or XHTML. So if DTD is defined as HTML, then not closing these tags is fine. But if DTD is defined as XHTML these tags must be closed. (although internet explorer handles everything correctly).

yes but what you dont know is how easy it is for the major corperations to find a web designer. they probly use freelancers to do their work so they get big titles like "cnn" on their portfolios for little to no cost at all. its part of that whole game to boost your personal popularity while just getting by to pass the worst standards (IE) but then again compared to all the other browsers what is the percentage of people in the US (or even the world) of people using IE compare to ff, opera, safari, netscape, all those browsers? 80% of the people are running windows which comes standard with IE and most people dont care what browser they use as long as they can access the net. So if a designer and create a site that the MAJORITY of people use or that are going to view the site they have satisfied the majority if that particular site users where as the other 20% get screwed because of laziness, and poor designing skills. Jeeze if your going to do something do it right, pardon my french but, dont half ass your job. Thats what depreciates us REAL designers that could be giving people the right crap that satisfies 99.9% of users.

Sorry to be so long winded but it really grinds my gears when people cant do stuff the right way, being lazy.

[Ryan Fait]

Standards are here for a reason. They're like a speed limit, some people just go faster than they should, and someday, it's going to get them in trouble. Both are illegal in the US.