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Free HTML Lesson - How To Include Images in Web Pages Part 1

The document discusses how to include images in web pages using the <IMG> tag. The required SRC attribute specifies the image file's URL. Common image file types are .jpg, .gif, and .png. Optional attributes like WIDTH, HEIGHT, BORDER, and ALT provide additional formatting and accessibility. The ALT attribute in particular provides an image description for users who cannot see the image.

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Free HTML Lesson - How To Include Images in Web Pages Part 1

The document discusses how to include images in web pages using the <IMG> tag. The required SRC attribute specifies the image file's URL. Common image file types are .jpg, .gif, and .png. Optional attributes like WIDTH, HEIGHT, BORDER, and ALT provide additional formatting and accessibility. The ALT attribute in particular provides an image description for users who cannot see the image.

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Free HTML lesson - how to include images in

web pages part 1


Let's start this section with an image of the beautiful Aishwarya Rai.

Including images is very simple. You employ the <IMG> tag. The required attribute of this
tag is SRC, which takes the value of the image file's URL.
<IMG SRC="ash.jpg">

The SRC attribute determines the source of the image file and takes a URL as value. I have
used a relative URL which shows that ash.jpg is located in the same directory as this file.
Three kinds of images files .gif, .jpg and .png are used on the Internet. A general rule of
thumb is to use .jpgs for photographs and .gifs for images containing large blocks of single
colors.
The <IMG> tag has many attributes
 WIDTH: used for specifying the width of the image
 HEIGHT: specifies height
 BORDER: displays a border around the image
 ALT: helps to insert a descriptive text for users using text based browsers or for
visitors with visual disabilities.
 HSPACE: inserts space at the left and right of the image
 VSPACE: inserts space at the top and bottom of the image
 NAME: gives a name to the image; necessary for client-side scripting
using JavaScript
 LOWSRC: provides a method through which a low quality alternate of the image is
displayed first before the final one starts to load.
 ALIGN: aligns other HTML elements such as text around the image.

Image size attributes - WIDTH and HEIGHT


The WIDTH and HEIGHT attributes take pixel dimensions of the image as values. You can
find the width and the height of the image in pixels using a graphics program such as Paint
Shop Pro or Adobe PhotoShop.
Your image will display correctly even if you skip using these attributes. However, you
should ALWAYS include them as this helps the browser window to allocate space for your
image.
Let us examine the image below. Its width and height values in pixels are 150 and 100,
respectively.

<IMG SRC="hat.gif" width="150" height="100">


Now see what happens if we specify 200 as width and 50 as height.

<IMG SRC="hat.gif" width="200" height="50">


The image is distorted! It means that the width and height attributes force the image to be
displayed in that space regardless of what the actual dimensions are.

Image BORDER Attribute


Use this attribute to put a border around the image. The attribute takes a number as value.
This number determines the thickness of the border in pixels.

<IMG SRC="hat.gif" width="150" height="100" border="2">

<IMG SRC="hat.gif" width="150" height="100" border="8">


HTML image ALT Attribute
According to the World Wide Web Consortium, the ALT atribute is now required. You can
put some advisory text with the use of this attribute. This text is displayed when the mouse
pointer is placed on the image. You should get into the good habit of including ALT tags.
Why? Read on...
Visitors using text-based browsers or who have turned off images in their browsers will not
be able to see the image. However, they would be able to read the image description
through the ALT attribute. Also, the ALT attribute value will be read by speech browsers,
employed by visually impaired visitors. So be a good developer and insert the ALT attribute
always.
Place your mouse pointer above the image to display text

<IMG SRC="hat.gif" width="150" height="100" border="1" alt="A green colored hat">

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