New Message: image rendering from shortcuts, menu items and ALT tags

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Address: http://manila.userland.com/discuss/msgReader$2763

By: Ben Collis (ben at dp.co.nz)

Hi All,

I understand how images and their ALT tags appear to be generated by Manila when a page is rendered. It appears to be as follows - the ALT tag is set as the image title. If the Image-Text field is used that is also appended to the ALT tag.

However, this question is about when using images in menu items (as set in the Prefs Advanced: Navigation )

i.e. in http://www.manila.userland.com/admin/sitePrefs/default$advanced_navigation

Using an image one ends up with a line of XML like

<item disabled="contact.gif" name="contact" pagename="/contact"
picture="contact1.gif" rollover="contact2.gif"

which produces a line of HTML like

< a href="/contact" onmouseover="rollImage ('contact1.gif')"
onmouseout="unRollImage ('contact1.gif')"
class="navigatorLink"

Request is to see if it could be possible in the navigation XML to be able to set the ALT tag to something in particular, rather than it take on the value of the image title (i.e. set when picture uploaded).

E.g.

<item disabled="contact.gif" name="contact" pagename="/contact"
picture="contact1.gif" rollover="contact2.gif" alt="Click this button to see contact details">

be interested to hear your thoughts.

On internet exploder the ALT tag (e.g. "contact.gif" ) appears as balloon text help on mouse hover event and this is displeasing some people.

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