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HTML Tag: img

Image.

Note: When an image is used as a link, many browsers will show a border around the image. To get rid of this you should use CSS (border: 0).

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Required Attributes

  • src is used to specify the location of the image file.
  • alt is used to specify the alternative text of the image, which should be a short description.

Optional Attributes

  • longdesc can be used to specify the location (in the form of a URI) of a description of the image.
  • height can be used to define the height of the image (in pixels). This can also be done with CSS.
  • width can be used to define the width of the image (in pixels). This can also be done with CSS.
  • Common attributes

Example


<img src="http://www.htmldog.com/images/logo.gif" alt="HTML Dog" />