Carridge return (
) on Firefox title hints: firefox, cr

Carridge return (
) on Firefox title hints

Hi,
I want to supply my site readers with hints on the links in my site.
So I do it simply like this:
<A HREF="http://www.mymy.com/hello.html" TITLE="Wide range of solutions by 
 Cisco, Nortel and Enterasys">Wide range of bla bla</A>

I would also like to use CR breaks on the title text so I have added:


to the title - see above.

My problem is that it works with IE7 but Mozilla Firefox ignores my CR characters.
How do I do this with the great Mozilla too?

Thanks you!

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Here's a direct quote from the HTML 4.01 specification. Basically, it is saying that the title attribute for elements is of data type CDATA, and that type has specific guidance for content and handling. Note the 2nd and 3rd recommendations for interpreting content. The final word, though, is "SHOULD". None of these handling recommendations are mandatory for the standard, and we know there is a WIDE amount of interpretation left to the user agent.

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# CDATA is a sequence of characters from the document character set and may include character entities. User agents should interpret attribute values as follows:

* Replace character entities with characters,
* Ignore line feeds,
* Replace each carriage return or tab with a single space.

User agents may ignore leading and trailing white space in CDATA attribute values (e.g., " myval " may be interpreted as "myval"). Authors should not declare attribute values with leading or trailing white space.

For some HTML 4 attributes with CDATA attribute values, the specification imposes further constraints on the set of legal values for the attribute that may not be expressed by the DTD.

Although the STYLE and SCRIPT elements use CDATA for their data model, for these elements, CDATA must be handled differently by user agents. Markup and entities must be treated as raw text and passed to the application as is. The first occurrence of the character sequence "</" (end-tag open delimiter) is treated as terminating the end of the element's content. In valid documents, this would be the end tag for the element.
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