The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has a new little tool for webmasters. It’s the W3C Cheatsheet. Though the page is lacking in luster when it comes to description (I had to guess what to do when first using it), it packs a fully loaded archive of all your HTML and CSS element attributes.

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To use the tool you simply type in the HTML element you want to know more about, and W3C delivers all of the elements attributes. Knowing how to address those attributes is up to you, but I’m guessing will come in very handy for many of us.

 

Firefox and Microsoft Internet Explorer handle the title attribute for images differently. Now before you IE bashers jump on this please take the time to read this to the end. Firefox messes this up as well. Here are some of the problems, and my simple partial solution.

Also, within this post I often refer to the mouse over popup. If you are unfamiliar with what I mean by that, simply hover your mouse over my logo in the top left. Within a second or two you should see a small window display “Best Web Image – Web Usability and Design”. That is what I am talking about. Continue reading »