Can CSS uppercase the text shown for the title atribute?

Question

Let’s say we have:

<a id="link" href="#"  title="i am the title">link</a>

Is there a way to use CSS to uppercase the "i am the title" text that will be shown on mouse hover by default?

Answer 1

Not that I'm aware of.

You can select an element by its attribute(s), but not select an attribute itself.

A little bit of JavaScript can do it, however...

var elem = document.getElementById('link');

elem.title = elem.title.toUpperCase();

jsFiddle.

Answer 2

No - title like tooltips are browser dependant, CSS can't change them.

But here's a link that shows how you can make a fake tooltip look like you want with CSS only: How to change the style of Title attribute inside the anchor tag?