HTML title attribute in Rails displaying only first word

Question

Got a weird little problem.

I want to create the text hover on an item to display that item\'s \"description,\" which is an attribute of that item\'s model. So I ba

Answer 1

Insert double qutoes for title in the div tag

<div title="<%= item.description %>" ><%= item.name %></div>

Answer 2

Change this line:

<div title=<%= item.description %> ><%= item.name %></div>

to this:

<div title="<%= item.description %>" ><%= item.name %></div>

Answer 3

I think you need to add quoting to the HTML in the view. If you view source on the generated HTML, I'm willing to bet it looks like this:

<div title=This is a super cool item! >

The browser will interpret that as the div having a title with the value This, and then attributes named is, a, super, cool, and item!.

If you change your view to this:

<div title="<%= item.description %>" >

Then your generated HTML should look like this:

<div title="This is a super cool item!" >