IMG image; photo, icon, glyph, or illustration XHTML 1.01 Strict

img

Purpose

Embedded image

Description

This element places an image in a document. The alt attribute is used to display a string of text when the image can not be displayed (e.g., in non-graphical browsers). Note that it is a good idea to fill in the alt attribute so that users with non-graphical browsers can gain information. For example, when the image conveys information not explained in the text or the image is used in an anchor.

Start tag

Required <img />

Attributes

Name	Type	Default	Comment
alt	CDATA	#REQUIRED	text used for titles; short description
class	CDATA	#IMPLIED	space-separated list of classes
dir	( ltr \| rtl )	#IMPLIED	direction for weak/neutral text
height	CDATA	#IMPLIED	nn for pixels or nn% for percentage length; override height
id	ID	#IMPLIED	document-wide unique id
ismap	( ismap )	#IMPLIED	use server-side image map
lang	NMTOKEN	#IMPLIED	language code (backwards compatible); language code as RFC3066
longdesc	CDATA	#IMPLIED	Uniform Resource Identifier as per RFC2396; a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is a URI; link to long description (complements alt)
onclick	CDATA	#IMPLIED	a pointer button was clicked; script expression
ondblclick	CDATA	#IMPLIED	a pointer button was double clicked; script expression
onkeydown	CDATA	#IMPLIED	a key was pressed down; script expression
onkeypress	CDATA	#IMPLIED	a key was pressed and released; script expression
onkeyup	CDATA	#IMPLIED	a key was released; script expression
onmousedown	CDATA	#IMPLIED	a pointer button was pressed down; script expression
onmousemove	CDATA	#IMPLIED	a pointer was moved within; script expression
onmouseout	CDATA	#IMPLIED	a pointer was moved away; script expression
onmouseover	CDATA	#IMPLIED	a pointer was moved onto; script expression
onmouseup	CDATA	#IMPLIED	a pointer button was released; script expression
src	CDATA	#REQUIRED	Uniform Resource Identifier as per RFC2396; a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is a URI; URI of image to embed
style	CDATA	#IMPLIED	associated style info; style sheet data
title	CDATA	#IMPLIED	advisory title; text used for titles
usemap	CDATA	#IMPLIED	Uniform Resource Identifier as per RFC2396; a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is a URI; use client-side image map
width	CDATA	#IMPLIED	nn for pixels or nn% for percentage length; override width
xml:lang	NMTOKEN	#IMPLIED	language code (as per XML 1.0 spec); language code as RFC3066

Content

EMPTY

End tag

Forbidden

Referenced in

a abbr acronym address b bdo big button caption cite code dd del dfn div dt em fieldset h1 h2 h3 h4 h5 h6 i ins kbd label legend li object p q samp small span strong sub sup td th tt var

Example

Source

Appearance

<img src="http://www.december.com/html/images/icon.gif" alt="logo for the HTML Station" /> Visit us today!
<img src="http://www.december.com/html/images/icon.gif" alt="logo for the HTML Station" width="100" height="200" />
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<map name="mymap" id="mymap">
<area shape="rect" coords="0,0,100,50" href="http://www.december.com/html/" alt="The HTML Station" /></map>
<img src="../../images/icon.gif" usemap="#mymap" width="100" height="100" ismap="ismap" alt="imagemap" />

Visit us today!

Meeting your hypertext needs since 1996.