Alt Text in Page Link?

I am using Page Link in my Vertical Navigation Bar and there is no place to pass the Alt text when you create a Page Link. Alt text is need it to meet our Common Look and Feel Standards. How do you pass the Alt text information for the Page Link?
Thank You!

According to the W3C standard, the ALT tag is:
"The alt attribute is defined in a set of tags (namely, img, area and optionally for input and applet) to allow you to provide a text equivalent for the object."
If you show an image for your page link, the Display Name attribute value will show as Alt text for the image. Otherwise the ALT tag is not a valid standard tag for a hyperlink.
Hope this helps,
Candace

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I was just wondering, how do I make an "Alt" box appear for
links, so I can enter alternate text for my links without adding it
to the code everytime?

First, there really is no alt attribute for an <a> tag.
It's intended to be
used for <img> tags only.
Second, IE is the only browser that routinely displays the
alt attribute.
Other browsers will only display it when the browser has been
set to not
download images. It's a way of identifying the image when you
are not
displaying the graphics.
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into the code.
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>enter alternate text for my links without adding it to
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On 20 May 2006 in macromedia.dreamweaver, Raizel wrote:
> In article
<[email protected]>,
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