Editing Title text

[[File:tt.png|right|thumb|The title text for [[2760: Paleontology Museum]]]]{{incomplete|In the last paragraph, need to mention that Randall previously '''erroneously''' called it "alt text", like in [[45]], but he more recently calls it "title text", like in [[442]]. (A bit of history.) Add more comics calling it both "alt" and "title" text, if you find any.}}

The '''title text''', also known as {{w|mouseover|mouseover text}} or {{w|tooltip}}, is an {{w|HTML attribute}} [[Randall Munroe|Randall]] puts on almost every xkcd comic to add something tangentially relevant to the topic of the comic. In some of the early comics, the title text was also used to comment on how they were drawn (see [[24: Godel, Escher, Kurt Halsey]] and explain the joke (see [[5: Blown apart]]). In [[:Category:No title text|a few comics]], the title text is missing.

It can be accessed in many ways:
* By hovering the mouse pointer over the image on the main site;
* By clicking the "<sup>(alt-text)</sup>" button next to the comic title on the [https://m.xkcd.com mobile site];
* By viewing the [[Transcript|official transcript]] of the comics;
* By installing a [[Browser helpers|browser helper]]

Randall uses the "title" attribute rather than the {{w|Alternative text for images|"alt" attribute}} in the HTML sources. In the [https://xkcd.com/rss.xml comics feed] and [https://xkcd.com/info.0.json API data] the "alt text" is labeled "alt".

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