# HTML title attribute question.

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/html-title-attribute-question/572281
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [February 22, 2011, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/html-title-attribute-question/572281 "2011-02-22T21:44:18Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2011, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/html-title-attribute-question/572281/1 "2011-02-22T21:44:18Z")

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I doubt this can be done, but I’ll give it a shot.

Is there a way to imbed an anchor tag or img in a title attribute?

title=‘“Use your mouse to pan”\<a href=“[http://myserver.help.htm](http://myserver.help.htm)”\>test\</a\>’

I would like to be able to pop a more detailed help screen from the title text on the rollover.

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### Author: ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2011, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/html-title-attribute-question/572281/2 "2011-02-22T22:10:37Z")

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No, but there are ways to popup a hidden div upon mouseover. [Here](http://flowplayer.org/tools/tooltip/index.html) is an excellent tooltip plugin for jQuery, for example.

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### Author: ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2011, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/html-title-attribute-question/572281/3 "2011-02-22T22:23:36Z")

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> [@friedo](#):
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> No, but there are ways to popup a hidden div upon mouseover. [Here](http://flowplayer.org/tools/tooltip/index.html) is an excellent tooltip plugin for jQuery, for example.

Thanks. I’m using jquery on this app. I’ll give that a try.

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### Author: ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2011, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/html-title-attribute-question/572281/4 "2011-02-23T01:50:10Z")

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\<a href=“[http://myserver.help.htm](http://myserver.help.htm)” title='“Use your mouse to pan”\>test\</a\>

[http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/links.html](http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/links.html)  
[http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG-TECHS/H33.html](http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG-TECHS/H33.html)
