Changing Font on Alt text?

Is there a way to change the font/color of alternative text?
Or is this all part of the user browser specifications?
Thanks!

No, you cannot change that. But the alt attribute's value is
not displayed
in any modern browser except for IE. Perhaps you should
consider using the
title attribute, which is displayed in all browsers?
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> Is there a way to change the font/color of alternative
text? Or is this
> all part of the user browser specifications?
>
> Thanks!

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/* * My GUI Client */
import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.text.*;
import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.event.*;
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import javax.swing.text.StyledEditorKit.*;
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import java.net.*;
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import java.util.Vector;
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Well sorry the source code takes up the whole forum but I need a good feedback from this.

All right...
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String fontchoice;
String fontlist;
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