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The Beginner's Guide to the HTML IMG Tag: Make Your Website Shine

Introduction 

 
The IMG element (tag) defines an image. The <img> tag is used to insert images in a document. The image is presented as part of the web page. But it is important to know that image is not a technical part of a web page. Generally, the Maximum browser supports only GIF, JPEG, WebP, and PNG formats. The HTML <img> tag is used for embedding images into an HTML document. The value given by the src attribute is the URL to the embedded image. The value of the alt attribute appears if the image cannot be loaded. To link an image to another document, you simply nest the <img> tag inside <a> tags.
 
Syntax
 
<img src="URL" alt="Text" />
 
src - Defines the address(URL) of the image.
 
alt - text to display if image not displayed.
 

Attributes

 
HTML tags can contain one or more attributes. Attributes are added to a tag to provide the browser with more information about how the tag should appear or behave. Attributes consist of a name and a value separated by equals (=) sign, with the value surrounded by double quotes.
 
There are 3 kinds of attributes that you can add to your HTML tags: Element-specific, global, and event-handler content attributes.
 
Element-Specific Attributes
 
The following table shows the attributes that are specific to this tag/element.
 

Attributes Introduced by HTML5

 
Attributes Description             
src This attribute specifies Address of resource file using URL.
alt Alternate text. This specifies text to be used in case the browser/user agent can't render the image.
ismap For image maps. See HTML map tag
usemap For image maps. See HTML map tag
width Specifies the width of the image.
height Specifies the height of the image.
 
Global Attributes
 
The following attributes are standard across all HTML 5 tags.
 
HTML5 Global Attributes
accesskey draggable style
class hidden tabindex
oncontextmenu ondblclick ondrag
contenteditable id title
contextmenu lang lang  
 
Event Handler Content Attributes
 
Here are the standard HTML 5 event handler content attributes.
 
Event Handler Content Attributes
onabort onerror* onmousewheel
onblur* onfocus* onpause
oncanplay onformchange onplay
oncanplaythrough onforminput onplaying
onchange oninput onprogress
onclick oninvalid onratechange
oncontextmenu onkeydown onreadystatechange
ondblclick onkeypress onscroll
ondrag onkeyup onseeked
ondragend onload* onseeking
ondragenter onloadeddata onselect
ondragleave onloadedmetadata onshow
ondragover onloadstart onstalled
ondragstart onmousedown onsubmit
ondrop onmousemove onsuspend
ondurationchange onmouseout ontimeupdate
onemptied onmouseover onvolumechange
onended onmouseup onwaiting
 
For example
 
  1. <!DOCTYPE html >  
  2. <html>  
  3.     <head>  
  4.         <title>Title of Document</title>  
  5.         <style type="text/css">  
  6.         .style1  
  7.         {  
  8.             font-size: large;  
  9.             font-family: Verdana;  
  10.         }  
  11.     </style>  
  12.     </head>  
  13.     <body>  
  14.         <h1>HTML5 img tag.</h1>  
  15.         <h2>Example of image. </h2>  
  16.         <img src="Image/Waterlilies.jpg" style="width: 211px" />  
  17.         <i>  
  18.             <br />  
  19.             <span class="style1">This is the flower.</span>  
  20.         </i>  
  21.         <br class="style1">  
  22.             <h2>Secongd Image.</h2>  
  23.             <img src="Image/Winter.jpg" style="width: 219px" />  
  24.         </body>  
  25.     </html>  
Edge
 
im1.gif 
 
FireFox
 
im2.gif
 
Making hyperlinks to an image
 
The below HTML code displays an image with a hyperlink.
 
  1. <a href="http://www.vbdotnetheaven.com/">  
  2.     <img src="Image/Waterlilies.jpg" style="width: 211px" />  
  3. </a>  
Creating an image map
 
  1. <map name="planetmap">  
  2.     <area shape="rect" coords="0,0,82,126" alt="Sun" href="sun.htm" />  
  3.     <area shape="circle" coords="90,58,3" alt="Mercury" href="mercur.htm" />  
  4.     <area shape="circle" coords="124,58,8" alt="Venus" href="venus.htm" />  
  5. </map>  


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