Maybe at one point, you were like me. “Why doesn’t my alt text show up when I mouse over it?” I used to be confused by that for the longest time, as embarrassing as it seems for me. But it’s actually really simple: Alt doesn’t work like it does in Rentry.
If you want text to appear when you hover over it, then you can use title, exactly how alt is used.
If you’re on your computer or laptop, you can try it now:
And here’s the difference between title and alt:
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They both work like alt text but only one has text appear when you hover it! (I only realized this now... lol)
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