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Tooltip on anchor's title not shown in IE9


Has something was changed in the way IE9 treats the title attribute in an anchor tag? I try to use a regular anchor, such as -

<a href="http://www.somelink.com" title="Some title here">This is a link</a>

A tooltip should be with the title is expected to appear, and it does appear in previous versions of IE and also in other browsers, but not on IE9. Is there a know issue with that? I tried to search the web for that, but found nothing about this. Any ideas? Thanks


Solution

  • The code for the href link above works fine in IE9. Which leads me to believe something else on the page is causing the issue. Have you tried validating your html? http://validator.w3.org/

    It could be that there's something else broken that the other browsers are just looking past. Perhaps it's nested in such a way that's causing IE9 to overlook the tag.