styling an image title attribute using css?

Question

I want to style the text we see when we hover over the image. I tried the following but it won’t work:

Answer 1

Another great fiddle is http://jsfiddle.net/tDQWN/129/ (I can't take credit, but in the same search I found both posts). It's a similar solution but the styling is a bit fancier.

a {
  color: #900;
  text-decoration: none;
}

a:hover {
  color: red;
  position: relative;
}

a[data-title]:hover:after {
  content: attr(data-title);
  padding: 4px 8px;
  color: #333;
  position: absolute;
  left: 0;
  top: 100%;
  white-space: nowrap;
  z-index: 20px;
  -moz-border-radius: 5px;
  -webkit-border-radius: 5px;
  border-radius: 5px;
  -moz-box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #222;
  -webkit-box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #222;
  box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #222;
  background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #eeeeee, #cccccc);
  background-image: -webkit-gradient(linear,left top,left bottom,color-stop(0, #eeeeee),color-stop(1, #cccccc));
  background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, #eeeeee, #cccccc);
  background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #eeeeee, #cccccc);
  background-image: -ms-linear-gradient(top, #eeeeee, #cccccc);
  background-image: -o-linear-gradient(top, #eeeeee, #cccccc);
}

And HTML:

<p>Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas. <a href="#" data-title="Hello, i am a link">Vestibulum</a> tortor quam, feugiat vitae, ultricies eget, tempor sit amet, ante. Donec eu libero sit amet quam egestas semper. Aenean ultricies mi vitae est. <a href="#" data-title="This is another link">Mauris placerat</a> eleifend leo.</p>

Hope this helps someone!