Java / HTML-换行符在标题中起作用，但在alt属性中不起作用（IE8）

Question

I want to display an image with a title and an alt attribute. They both display the same content which is stored in a variable. Before displaying I replace all occurences of "\\n" with " ". Now the interesting part: When hovering over the image, the title displays the text correctly (sentence under sentence) but the alt text shows " " instead of breaking the lines.

What the heck is going on? O_o

Thanks for your help!

EDIT:

        ...
        tooltipText = tooltipText.replaceAll("\n", "
");
        startElement(HTML.IMG_ELEM, someName);
        writeAttribute(HTML.TITLE_ATTR, tooltipText);
        writeAttribute(HTML.ALT_ATTR, tooltipText);
        ...

Answer 1

I googled around and found this other question on Stack Overflow that may help you: newline in <td title="">

edit - tested on Firefox 14.0.1 (Ubuntu). Can't test with IE8, though.