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January 08, 2004

the more you know

Guess what I learned how to do today? Give links their very own titles! This means that readers who are blind will no longer have to wonder what a link is when it just says here, and I have picked up yet another useful skill.

For those of you who are as lame as me (don't worry, I won't tell): when you make your links, you use a "title" attribute after the URL, like:

Hey! I found a funny website < a href="http://www.somethingawful.com" title="Something Awful: The Internet Makes You Stupid">here!< /a>

Obviously, you'll have to take out those spaces in the anchor tag.

Next up in our three part series: Step Two: ??????

Posted by wil at January 8, 2004 12:59 PM

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