img Element Syntax
There are over a dozen attributes that can be applied to
the img
element to affect its
display, but the only required attributes are src
, which provides the URL of the image file,
and alt
for providing text for
browsers that cannot (or have been asked not to) display images. The
syntax for a minimal image element looks like this:
<img src="url of image" alt="alternative text" />
The URL provided by the src
attribute may be absolute (including the protocol and domain name) or
relative to the current document (using a relative pathname). The
conventions for relative pathnames are described in detail in Chapter 4.
Figure 12-1 shows an inline image resulting from this markup.
<p>Star light<img src="star.gif" alt="star" />
Star bright.</p>
Figure 12-1. An image placed within a line of text
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