Title String Limited

[bradeck]

There is a major difference in the way NS and IE apparently handle the title property of an anchor element. IE will wrap the field but allow long strings. NS will terminated them at a certain length and append an elipse. Any way to get around this?

[brothercake]

There's no way around it, no. But it's an interesting question why mozilla have chosen to cap the length of tooltips; perhaps they felt it was truer to the standards to do so. I shall investigate and see what the specs say about title ...

[later]

Hmm ... well http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/global.html#adef-title doesn't say anything about if they should be length restricted; I suppose it wouldn't really - even the fact that it's rendered as a tooltip is just a suggestion.


Dunno ... maybe there's a usability case for restricting the length - to prevent excessive over-description of things, or to ensure that titles are used for real meta-data rather than marketing speak. I must admit I've been wondering the same thing ...

[bradeck]

Thanks brothercake.

I'm bummed I would be limited - in my very specific application - to the whims of overmarketeers. I appreciate your help!