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can i insert line breaks into alt attribute on nn4?

Feb 21st, 2001 11:14
Ben Gordon, Luciano Fernandes, http://www.htmlhelp.com/feature/art3.htm

No, I am sorry to say that we as the document authors have no control of 
the alt text display.  The HTML2.0 spec that the alt text is intended to 
support the &entityname; and &#number; mechanisms for representing 
displayable characters, and most browsers get that right (some early 
versions didn't). This does not mean that you can get line breaks 
displayed in ALT texts by using the control codes  and/or . 
So all in all we are pretty much at the mercy of the browser companies.
Sorry