Banish Tooltips

Want to get rid of annoying "tooltips" that destroy your design when someone mouses over an image? The answer is to put a blank title attribute in the img tag, like this:

<img src="mypicture.gif" alt="Description of picture for non-visual browsers" title="" height=...

This Dreamweaver command does it all for you automatically. The existing alt text is left untouched, leaving it to do the job it was originally intended to. Existing title attributes are also left untouched, so there's no danger of removing tooltips from the images you still want them for.

As an added bonus, the command also checks the page to see if there are any spacer images — identified by "spacer.gif", "shim.gif", "filler.gif", "transparent.gif" or "clearpixel.gif". Some people put alt="spacer image" (or something similar) inside the image tag, in the mistaken belief this is necessary. It's not. In fact, it's extremely annoying to people using screen readers, who are forced to listen to "spacer image" repeated dozens of times. The command turns any alternative text for spacer images to alt="", and inserts it if the alt attribute is missing.

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