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

<!DOCTYPE html >
<html>
<head>
<title>Title of Document</title>
<style type="text/css">
.style1
{
font-size: large;
font-family: Verdana;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h1>HTML5 img tag.</h1>
<h2>Example of image. </h2>
<img src="Image/Waterlilies.jpg" style="width: 211px" />
<i>
<br />
<span class="style1">This is the flower.</span>
</i>
<br class="style1">
<h2>Secongd Image.</h2>
<img src="Image/Winter.jpg" style="width: 219px" />
</body>
</html>

Edge

FireFox

Making hyperlinks to an image

The below HTML code displays an image with a hyperlink.

<a href="http://www.vbdotnetheaven.com/">
<img src="Image/Waterlilies.jpg" style="width: 211px" />
</a>

Creating an image map

<map name="planetmap">
<area shape="rect" coords="0,0,82,126" alt="Sun" href="sun.htm" />
<area shape="circle" coords="90,58,3" alt="Mercury" href="mercur.htm" />
<area shape="circle" coords="124,58,8" alt="Venus" href="venus.htm" />
</map>

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

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