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You??™ll note that the visited state is the same as the standard state in the previous
code block. While I don??™t recommend doing this for links in a page??™s general content
area, or for pages that have a lot of navigation links, I feel it??™s acceptable for sites that
have a small number of navigation links, where it??™s not likely a visitor will need notification
regarding which pages or sections have been accessed.
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The title attribute
Regular users of Internet Explorer for
Windows may be familiar with its habit of
popping up alt text as a tooltip. This has
encouraged web designers to wrongly fill alt
text with explanatory copy for those links that
require an explanation, rather than using the
alt text for a succinct overview of the image??™s
content. Should you require a pop-up, add a
title attribute to your surrounding a element
to explain what will happen when the
link is clicked. The majority of web browsers
display its value when the link is hovered over
for a couple of seconds (see right), although
some older browsers, such as Netscape 4,
don??™t provide this functionality.

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There are a few things to be mindful of when using title attributes. The first is that
behavior varies slightly between browsers, and the positioning and style of the tooltip cannot
be controlled.


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