Web Tooltip "universally Accepted" Linebreak Character?

I use \n to create a linebreak in web tooltip. This works in IE and in Chrome. But Firefox ignores it. What will work universally as linebreak character in tooltip? Thanks.

Solution 1:

Update: This has been cleared up in HTML5 using the title attribute. Now Firefox 12 supports it. Try this:

<spantitle="First line&#10;Second line">Test</span>

Bad news: Firefox does not line break tooltips. This is actually a non-standard html extension, ie a bug in MSIE that may cause problem with certain pages.

See this bug on the firefox issue tracker.

Solution 2:

As of Firefox 12 they now support line breaks using the line feed HTML entity: 


<spantitle="First line&#10;Second line">Test</span>

This works in IE and is correct according to the HTML5 spec for the title attribute.

Solution 3:

Firefox doesn't display multi-lines in tooltips.

Use tooltip script if you really want to customize it as you expected. http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/tooltips-scripts-50-scripts-with-ajax-javascripts-css-tutorials/

Solution 4:

This works in mail messages %0A See these google results for more information.