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[[File:tt.png|right|thumb|The title text for [[2760: Paleontology Museum]]]]
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The '''title text''' is an {{w|HTML attribute}} [[Randall]] puts on each xkcd image which normally adds something tangentially relevant to the topic of the comic. It can be accessed via hovering over the comic.
  
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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[[Category:Meta]]
 
 
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".
 
 
 
[[Category:Design of xkcd.com]]
 
{{xkcdmeta}}
 

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