Name

alt — NN n/a IE 4 DOM 1

Synopsis

Read/Write

Future nongraphical browsers may use the alt property setting to display a brief description of the meaning of the (invisible) image’s hotspots.

Example

document.all.elementID.alt = "To Next Page"

Value

Any quoted string of characters.

Default

None.

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