[lug] Alt Text Length

Zan Lynx zlynx at acm.org
Mon Sep 26 10:15:08 MDT 2005


On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 10:05 -0600, Matt Thompson wrote:
> OK, this is such a useless question that no one would ask, that I figure
> someone on a LUG must know it (I'm also asking on #firefox, but the S/N
> there is immense).  Namely, I am wondering if there is a way to make
> Firefox display the complete alt text for an image.  An example is with
> Achewood:
> 
> http://www.achewood.com/index.php?date=09262005
> 
> Now, if you hover over the image, you get alt text, but it is cut off
> with ellipses.  I know that because a "View Source" tells me there are
> more than 85 characters in it.  I tried some filters on about:config,
> but no luck.

Surely you mean the N/S is immense?  Or the S/N is microscopic? :-)

All I can say is that with Epiphany (the Gnome adaption of Gecko), the
Alt text at that link displays in its entirety.
-- 
Zan Lynx <zlynx at acm.org>
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