Quick, easy, foolproof field level help

Jake Howlett, 29 January 2001

Category: Quick Tips; Keywords: input help

Never mind all those fancy methods of offering users Field Level Help in the browser, try this quick and easy one.

In Internet Explorer you can set the "Title" HTML Attribute for the field and this will present the user with something similar to that below, when they hover the mouse over the input box:

To do this all you need to do is enter the following in to the HTML Attributes for any field...

To produce something like the field below. Try hovering your mouse over it.

Notes: May be an idea to let users know that this method of help is being used as people who tab between input boxes won't see it.