Dynamic caption NOT showing on PC but does on MAC

Brett wrote:
> Hi Steve,
>
>>
>> Use the title tag instead of alt.
>
> I'm not sure I understand. My post showed an excerpt from my page and
> it already has a title. Only one title per page as I understand it.
> The alt= is for accessibility as you say for screen readers, but my
> caption has a <p> paragraph tag. How would the title affect the <p> tag?
>
> Brett
>

I meant for the img tag, use the title property instead of the alt tag.
But it looks like I have misunderstood your post and have confused you
in the process. When you said caption I thought you meant you were
trying to use the ALT text as caption for an image, which is why I
suggested the title property, but thats not what you want either, and I
can't work out what you do want, sorry.

Steve

Never mind, I figured it out. I had this in my stylesheet font-size= .85%;

Gee, one little period can really make a mess of things...

Thanks

Even more interesting is that I can highlight the little hyphen
character > copy > paste in notepad and it is the correct text. Wow,
what's that about?

I should also note that in source view the <p> is visible.

> <div id="imgcont"><img src="images/product_imgs/thmb/AB001.gif" alt= AB001 /><br />
> <p class="imgcapt">AB001 </p>
> </div>

So if the code is correctly generated, as seen in the source, then why
is it not showing on the page?

Hi Steve,

>
> Use the title tag instead of alt.

I'm not sure I understand. My post showed an excerpt from my page and
it already has a title. Only one title per page as I understand it.
The alt= is for accessibility as you say for screen readers, but my
caption has a <p> paragraph tag. How would the title affect the <p> tag?

Brett

Brett wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm confused about why my caption is not showing up on the PC side in
> either IE or Firefox, but it does show up on the MAC side in Firefox,
> Safari and Opera.
>
>
>> <?php do { ?>
>> <div id="imgcont"><img src="images/product_imgs/thmb/<?php
>> echo $row_chooseProducts['image']; ?>"
>> alt= <?php echo $row_chooseProducts['mod_num']; ?> /><br />
>> <p class="imgcapt"><?php echo
>> $row_chooseProducts['mod_num']; ?> </p>
>> </div>
>> <?php } while ($row_chooseProducts =
>> mysql_fetch_assoc($chooseProducts)); ?>
>
>
> As you can see above, I have a div containing an image and a caption,
> both drawn from the same table. The entire div "imgcont" is a repeating
> region. On the MAC the caption shows perfectly below the image in all
> browsers, on the PC I just get a little line like a hyphen below the
> image. Why is this happening on the PC?

Use the title tag instead of alt. Alt is only supposed to used by screen
readers, some browsers got it wrong.

Steve