All,
I am an admitted newbie in the ways of web design, but I am learning quickly and am hoping for your assistance.
I am building a site that will be seen in IE and Netscape (a first for me). I have pictures that need to have alternative text and table borders that need to be "invisible".
First, the pictures, I put my alternative text in the Alt box of the picture's properties. No problem in IE, but Netscape doesn't show the text. What gives? Where do I put that text so Netscape will see it?!?!?
Second, how do I make table borders disappear? I set the boarder color to be the same as the background, but in Netscape they show up as light gray!??! In IE, no lines! I am so confused!
Please help a newbie!!
Thanks,
Amber

Not sure why you're having problems with Alt Text, works for me with Netscape 4.08.

You just can't do anything about the table borders, but look at this way, Netscape use is down to about 5% and Netscape users must be used to seeing a lot of screwy looking sites, even some quite big-name sites get it wrong, funniest of all: www.netscape.com/ - it's not a disaster, but things don't line up properly and the site generally looks better in IE. <img src=../images/dmxzone/forum/icon_smile.gif border=0 align=middle>

Regards

Owen.

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From your description it seems you're looking for some sort of 'tooltip' when the mouse moves over an image.

In IE and some other (older) browsers the Alt attribute is used to display this tooltip, but that's not what the Alt attribute is for. It is meant to give 'alternative' information for users browsing with image display turned off and for users with disabilities like blindness who can't see the images.

For the 'tooltip' purpose you're describing, you should use the Title attribute, and I think Netscape 7 will display that one. But other browsers in turn don't know how to handle that attribute.

So to accomodate all browser flavors, it is a good idea to supply both the Alt and the Title attribute for images. Then the 'tooltips' will be displayed in (almost?) every browser.
Dreamweaver doesn't offer the Title attribute in the Properties panel though, so you would have to add the Title attributes manullay in the code (or maybe use some extension).

As for the table borders: just set the 'border' attribute for the &lt;table&gt; tag to 0 (zero).

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Edited by - MarjaR on 11 Mar 2003 15:18:24

Edited by - MarjaR on 11 Mar 2003 15:21:05

Thanks so much for the information! I really appreciate it.

For future reference, is there a list of browser issues like these that I should pay attention to when designing for multiple browsers? Maybe a URL?

Thanks again!
Amber