What is the LiveCode equivalent property for the HTML <a title="some hover text"> parameter?

[J. Landman Gay]

On 7/5/11 11:15 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
> Keith Clarke wrote:
>
>  > I was using the <a> link description as an analogy to describe
>  > the required behaviour. It's the effect of a tooltip on text
>  > within a field that I want to create (and it's good to know
>  > that this is not a standard thing that I have simply overlooked).
>  >
>  > I've tried the message watcher but there don't seem to be any
>  > messages generated when the mouse traverses a change in textStyle
>  > - i.e. the cursor doesn't change to a finger when over a link.
>  > I hadn't really noticed this before but it seems strange as the
>  > default behaviour. Is there maybe a property switch to enable
>  > more orthodox cursor behaviour when over links in text?
>
> LC's htmlText supports the name attribute, so you can use something like
> this:
>
> <a name="Some text you want to display">Link Label</a>

I take back what I just said about inventing tag names, it doesn't seem 
to work now. I could have sworn it used to. So your method is better.

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