Editing Title text

[[File:tt.png|right|thumb|The title text for [[2760: Paleontology Museum]]]]{{incomplete|Need to mention that Randall previously '''erroneously''' called it "alt text", like in [[45]], and mouseover text, but he more recently calls it "title text", like in [[442]]. (A bit of history.) Add more comics/examples of Randall calling it "alt text", "mouseover text", and "title" text.}}

The '''title text''', also known as {{w|mouseover|mouseover text}} or {{w|tooltip}}, is an {{w|HTML attribute}} [[Randall Munroe|Randall]] puts on almost every xkcd comic to add something tangentially relevant to the topic of the comic. In some of the early comics, the title text was also used to comment on how they were drawn (see [[24: Godel, Escher, Kurt Halsey]]) and explain the joke (see [[5: Blown apart]]). In [[:Category:No title text|a few comics]], the title text is missing. One of the comics with the longest title text might be [[1363: xkcd Phone]].

It can be accessed in many ways:
* By hovering the mouse pointer over the image on the main site;
* By clicking the "<sup>(alt-text)</sup>" button next to the comic title on the [https://m.xkcd.com mobile site];
* By viewing the [[Transcript|official transcript]] of the comics;
* By installing a [[Browser helpers|browser helper]]

Randall uses the "title" attribute rather than the {{w|Alternative text for images|"alt" attribute}} in the HTML sources. In the [https://xkcd.com/rss.xml comics feed] and [https://xkcd.com/info.0.json API data] the "alt text" is labeled "alt".

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