Title attribute

I guess if it is possible to write a multiline title attribute natively
with HTML + CSS.

GMail does it and I don't know how.

<div title="first line[\n doesn't work]second line">My Div</div>

Any help appreciated.

Regards.

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Once upon a time *Fabri* wrote:

I guess if it is possible to write a multiline title attribute natively
with HTML + CSS.

GMail does it and I don't know how.

div title="first line[\n doesn't work]second line">My Div</div

Any help appreciated.

Regards.

I belive you must use Javascript for that.

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Fabri <no (AT) sp (DOT) am> wrote:

I guess if it is possible to write a multiline title attribute
natively with HTML + CSS.

Of course. In HTML, a line break is permitted inside an attribute
value. CSS has nothing to do with this.

What you probably mean, though, is whether you can make browsers
_display_ an attribute value in two (or more) lines with a line break
in a particular position. The answer is that by the specifications you
cannot, though some browsers incorrectly treat a line break as in
title="first line
second line"
as requesting a line break in output, not as equivalent to a space, as
the specifications say.

Any help appreciated.

When in a dead end, backtrack. What was the reason for your wish to
display a title attribute in two lines? It probably indicates a wrong
idea of the attribute. It is an "advisory title" - basically, something
that the user might or might not hear or see and that might sometimes
help her, but it should not contain anything that users _must_ know.

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