    Alt-O-Matic?
    
When yozu use pictures on your webpage, you can use ALT Tags.
These display text while the image is loading and when you touch it with your mouse.
If you use textlinks, you don't have this feature, and you have to make sure that all the required info about the link is written in advance or in the linktext itself.
Until now, as with Alt-O-Matic you can add an alt-tag functionality to your textlinks. You can alter the text to be displayed and even it's looks.If a surfer touches one of your textlinks, he will get an "ALT message" with a slight offset next to the mousepointer.
Chris Heilmann

    Usage

To use Alt-O-Matic in your own Pages, you copy the code in the <head> section and trigger the function in the <body> with onload="initalt()".
The linktag itself has to contain the mouseevents, onmouseover you add your message, onmouseout you hide it again::
<a href="http://www.onlinetools.org/" onmouseover="doalt('Many-O-Matics!')" onmouseout="realt()">Click</A>
The lines 22 to 30 of the source allow you to change the style of your altmessages.
altback="yellow" // Alt-Message background color
altborder="black"// Alt-Message border color
altfont="arial"  // Alt-Message Font
altfontcolor="black"// Alt-Message Font color
altfontsize="2" // Alt-Message Font Size
altoffx=5 // Alt-Message horizontal offset from mouse-position
altoffy=15 // Alt-Message vertical offset from mouse-position
altwidth=10 // Alt-Message width, will be expanded by your message
altheight=10 // Alt-Message height, will be expanded by your message

    Copyright

This script is open source written by Chris Heilmann, you are invited to use it freely, as long as you keep the infos and the links to this page in the sourcecode..
Thanks to Dan Steinman, whose tutorial helped me created the larger deal of this function.
May the source be with you. 

    Source

Alt-O-Matic uses DHTML, and Javascript 1.2, the routine is not executable without a HTML document doing the onload initialization and the mouseover triggers.
The script requires a browser capable of DHTML.(Netscape 4+, IE 4+)
Grab the source here:






