How Do I Show Alt Text When Hovering Over An Anchor With A Mouse?

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I'd like to show some descriptive text when the mouse hovers on a link:

<a class="foo" alt="Hello World" href="/index.html">Hello World</a>

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Go ahead and use the title attribute my friend!

<a href="#" title="hello universe!">Hello Everyone!</a> Share Improve this answer Follow edited Jan 22, 2019 at 12:23 answered Jan 22, 2019 at 9:20 Jason Is My NameJason Is My Name 34711 silver badge99 bronze badges 1

• Easy peezy, lemon squeezy! – Joshua Pinter Commented Dec 30, 2020 at 16:36

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What purpose do alt tags serve?

Search engines and other robots cannot interpret images, but images can play a crucial part in how people interpret a particular web page. Alt tags solve for this by providing text which is read by the search engines. When Googlebot or other search engine crawlers inspect a page, images with properly formatted alt text contribute to how the page is indexed and where it ranks.

Alt tags are also useful for users viewing a webpage on screen readers or browsers that can't process images.

Source: What is an alt tag, and how does it impact SEO?

But in your case you would like to use a href only for hyper link so use title tag only not alt tag.

<ul> <li><a class="navbar" title="culture" href="../cultura/index.html">Cultura</a></li> </ul>

If you're going to use img src then use alt tag it'll be more helpful.

Alt text is contained within the image tag example:

<img src="/demo/nike_air_zoom.png" alt="nike air zoom" title="nike air zoom" /> Share Improve this answer Follow edited Jan 22, 2019 at 17:51 MrWhite 43.1k44 gold badges5050 silver badges9090 bronze badges answered Jan 22, 2019 at 10:41 Group Of OceninfoGroup Of Oceninfo 29211 silver badge55 bronze badges 1

• Please quote your sources. However, since you're going into detail describing what the "alt tag" is, I think you should at least mention that it isn't actually a valid attribute on anchors. – MrWhite Commented Jan 22, 2019 at 17:59

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