Alt text in firefox

I'm trying to get alt text to display in firefox and it
doesn't seem to support it?
can anyone suggest a fix for this?
Thank you very much M

There is no fix per se. Firefox actually is doing this
correctly.. it's IE
that gets it wrong
Take a look at this thread when this question has been asked
before.. it
explains it all :-)
http://tinyurl.com/2ssej9
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> I'm trying to get alt text to display in firefox and it
doesn't seem to
> support it?
> can anyone suggest a fix for this?
> Thank you very much M

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