Nested TITLE attributes Oct07 '05
When both parent and child elements contain a title attribute, the child element wins. I don’t know why this is the case, but it seems to be consistent.
For example, quite often an image is also a link. So, the HTML would look something like this:
<a title="Title for this link"><img title="Title for this image" /></a>
When the mouse pointer hovers over this image (contained within a link), the "tooltip" will contain "Title for this image."
I’m not sure if the inner-most child element always wins, or just in this case.
In any case, it got me thinking about XML, and the redundancies that similar attributes cause.
Also, as far as accessibility, does it matter where the title attribute goes?
Categories: Accessibility 
, Markup , XHTML , XML
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