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Chapter 9. Inserting Graphics

In this chapter, you will:

• Inserting a Graphic

• Arrange elements on the page

• Controlling Image Size and Padding

• Hyperlink from graphics

• Utilize thumbnail graphics

• Including Alternate Text for Graphics

• Adding Figure Captions

So far in this book, you have created text-only webpages. They’re perfectly functional, but a bit dull. Webpages are more interesting and attractive when they include graphics.

Note

Graphic or image? The HTML5 specification uses the term image, but the term graphic is more popular in everyday usage. This book uses the two terms interchangeably.

In a word-processing program such as Microsoft Word, you embed graphics directly into the document. When you distribute a document to others, the graphics are included ...