Alt Text

I'm not a Xara expert although I've spent many hours with it. But my latest hitch is that I want to do Alt Text (1) to provide a caption if the picture doesn't go through, and (2) to show the text of a picture when the mouse hovers over it when it's there.

I do Web Properties,Image,"image caption (Alt Text)" but I can't understand why it works many times, but occasionally this text-appearing-when-mouse-hovers-over doesn't happen, even though I seem to have exactly the same settings on all the pictures I use it for. I've got the XWD handbook, but it never has the answers to things I want (because everyone else will know it!). I presume it's to do with layers, but I can't see any difference in my settings for those that work and those that don't.
I expect it's obvious, but I can't see it.

(re previous posts - Sorry not to have thanked previous responders for helping. I was too preoccupied with my problems to get back. Much appreciated and both have worked.)

In HTML, an image can include parameters of alt and name.

1. alt, for Alt Text, is added through Web Properties > Image > Image Caption (Alt Text).
2. title, for hover messages, is added through Web Animation > Mouse-over > Show pop-up text (Title).

It is not obvious.

Acorn

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Originally Posted by Acorn

In HTML, an image can include parameters of alt and name.

1. alt, for Alt Text, is added through Web Properties > Image > Image Caption (Alt Text).
2. title, for hover messages, is added through Web Animation > Mouse-over > Show pop-up text (Title).

It is not obvious.

Acorn

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Thank you very much for the solution, and thank you for saying it is not obvious: I think you're right. I now see why a few worked - because someone else did a few for me, but I missed the punchline. And I got thrown by the word Pop-Up, because I didn't want that sort of caption.

All going perfectly now thank you very much. So well that I shall turn to the forum for one other publishing problem I have, which I can't resolve from the manual.