User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20030925 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20030925 This bug is about one of the suggested workarounds given in Bug 25537 to the decision to not offer as an option the display of alt text as a tooltip when there is no title attribute. In the attachment for that bug, http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=124200&action=view , one of the suggested workarounds is to use the Element Properties popup. However, for long alt texts, such as that on the URL I gave, trying to read the alt text is very problematic. Making the alt text wrap in the Element Properties popup would improve the readabilitity of long alt textx such as this. (Note: I disagree with the decision reached in Bug 25537, but that is clearly is a matter of opinion and I am not trying to flog that dead horse here.) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Right click and select "Properties" on any element with a long alt text. Actual Results: The alt text was presented as one long line which could not be seen on one screen even when the resulting Element Properties popup was widened to the width of my screen. Trying to read it was possible by clicking an the line and scrolling, butcontrolling the scroll is very difficult Expected Results: A more readable presentation of the alt text should have been provided. Ideally, it would require no further user interaction to the alt text.

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Yeah, this is bad -> CONFIRMED.

*** Bug 225151 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

This problem also affects long text strings for the title attitribute in both the Element Properties window and also in the "tool tip" that appears when the cursor is over an image. In the latter case, the box displaying the text is over the image. If the image is at the right edge of the page, the text may be truncated. The display box should shift left on the page to display the entire text, with word wrapping if necessary. For an example of this latter problem, see my <http://www.rossde.com/Canada_trip/Vancouver_Montreal.html>. Scroll down a bit more than half way, to the 11 August entry. Then put the cursor over the locomotive graphic. The complete title text should read: "select this image for photos of the 2nd leg of our train trip across Canada (download = 99.7 KB)".

See also Bug 45375

*** Bug 257482 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

I think a possible solution to this, besides making it word wrap, would be making the browser remember the size of the box when you close it. This can't be too hard to implement, as lots of other dialog boxes remember their size on close.