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[[File:tt.png|right|thumb|The title text for [[2760: Paleontology Museum]]]]
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[[File:tt.png|right|thumb|The title text for 377: Journal 2]]
  
The '''title text''', also known as {{w|mouseover|mouseover text}} or {{w|tooltip}}, is an {{w|HTML attribute}} [[Randall]] puts on ''[[:Category:No title text|almost]]'' every xkcd comic image which he uses 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]]).
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The '''title text''' (AKA {{w|tooltip}} or {{w|mouseover}} text) is an {{w|HTML attribute}} [[Randall]] puts on almost every xkcd image which serves as [[Randall]]'s commentary adding something tangentially relevant to the topic of the comic. In some of the early comics, the title text was used to explain the joke (see, for example, [[5: Blown apart]]).
  
It can be accessed in many ways:
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It can be accessed by hovering the mouse pointer over the image on the main site, or by clicking the Alt Text button near the comic title on the mobile site (m.xkcd.com).
* 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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Randall uses the 'title' attribute rather than the 'alt' attribute in the HTML sources (cf. {{w|Wikipedia:Alternative_text_for_images|Wikipedia's entry on "Alt text"}}).
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Accessing the comics feed and api data, the 'alt' text is labeled at 'alt'.  
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[[https://xkcd.com/rss.xml]]
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[[http://xkcd.com/info.0.json]]
  
[[Category:Design of xkcd.com]]
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When using a device that cannot display the title text, it can be found in the [[Transcript on xkcd]].
{{xkcdmeta}}
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[[Category:Meta]]

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