Hey there,
Do you refer to the question mark that appears as you hover over the date?
The date tag is actually an abbr one, this actually used for abbreviations. You can use the following CSS to turn it off:
abbr, acronym, dfn {
cursor: none;
}
I think perhaps they should actually be using the html time tag instead as the time/date is not an abbreviation.
Take care.
yeap, its the abbreation date for google snippet result pass.
Using the above code in my custom CSS now just makes my cursor disappear. That’s strange.
How can I just make this a normal text? What is google snippet result pass? Is this an SEO issue?
Thanks so much!
Hey again.
For some reason I thought you wanted it as none, I must have mis read, sorry.
You can just use the default cursor so it looks like it would over normal areas, you can use this:
abbr, acronym, dfn {
cursor: default;
}
What is google snippet result pass? Is this an SEO issue?
Not totally sure what Richie was referencing, sorry. I’m sure he’ll be able to offer some clarification.
Changing the cursor shouldn’t affect SEO.
its the google structure data snippet
http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets
i just followed the the microformat rule on published and updated date microformat.
http://microformats.org/wiki/hatom-examples
Timothy,
Thanks for the quick fix! (I’d rather have a normal cursor than have the question mark which to users, may appear to be help text. (Why would help text appear over a date?)
However, I”m still confused why the date has some funky alt text to it highlighted in yellow when you hover over the date. It’s like an extended string of numbers.
http://tvwatchparties.com/
I don’t really understand the hatom examples linked above. Is this a Google thing?
Thanks! Happy Tuesday. 🙂
Hey again.
Thanks for the quick fix! (I’d rather have a normal cursor than have the question mark which to users, may appear to be help text. (Why would help text appear over a date?)
I think only Richie could comment on why he used the help cursor there. I do agree though that a default one works best over the date 🙂
However, I”m still confused why the date has some funky alt text to it highlighted in yellow when you hover over the date. It’s like an extended string of numbers.
It’s actually a title attribute rather than an alt one. You can read more about the use of the title attribute within abbr element here:
http://www.w3.org/wiki/HTML/Elements/abbr
As for hAtom, you can read more here:
http://microformats.org/wiki/hatom
Hope this helps.
Take care.
