Because it really is alt text, which is properly displayed as an alternative to the image when it is unavailable.
alt
Microsoft Internet Explorer has the particular behavior of displaying the alt attribute as a tooltip, but most other browsers do not do this.
Is the tooltip ![alt text](url “tooltip”), then? Or does markdown not do it?
Ah, that worked! Thanks!
If that’s not the tooltip, I’ve been terribly mistaken for a while.
Because it really is
alt
text, which is properly displayed as an alternative to the image when it is unavailable.Microsoft Internet Explorer has the particular behavior of displaying the
alt
attribute as a tooltip, but most other browsers do not do this.Is the tooltip ![alt text](url “tooltip”), then? Or does markdown not do it?
Ah, that worked! Thanks!
If that’s not the tooltip, I’ve been terribly mistaken for a while.