How can I use a carriage return in a HTML tooltip?

Question

I\'m currently adding verbose tooltips to our site, and I\'d like (without having to resort to a whizz-bang jQuery plugin, I know there are many!) to use carriage returns to

Answer 1

According to this article on the w3c website:

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.

This means that (at least) CR and LF won't work inside title attribute. I suggest that you use a tooltip plugin. Most of these plugins allow arbitrary HTML to be displayed as an element's tooltip.