html - display an alternate text on mouseover for a table entry

Question

I have a table one of whose column displays the employee id of the employees. i need to display there names when mouse moves on it . can anyone help me with that??

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13863358/display-an-alternate-text-on-mouseover-for-a-table-entry

Answer 1

alt is an attribute, not a tag, and it is not for mouse over, it shows up when image is not loaded, try using title instead

So try this

<table>
  <tr>
    <td title="Employee Name">1</td>
    <td title="Another Employee Name">2</td>
  </tr>
</table>