<IMG ...>

Usage Recommendation
thumbs up use it

  • SRC: where to get the picture
  • ALT: text to show if you don't show the picture
  • NAME
  • LONGDESC: URL of a long description of the image
  • WIDTH: how wide is the picture
  • HEIGHT: how tall is the picture
  • ALIGN: how text should flow around the picture
  • BORDER: border around the picture
  • HSPACE: horizontal distance between the picture and the text
  • VSPACE: vertical distance between the picture and the text
  • ISMAP: is this a clickable map?
 
  • USEMAP: name of the map definition
  • LOWSRC: a version of the picture that isn't such a big file
  • NATURALSIZEFLAG: meaningless
  • NOSAVE: meaningless
  • DYNSRC: play a movie file
  • CONTROLS: show the buttons which control the movie
  • LOOP: how many times to loop the movie
  • START: when to start playing the movie
  • onLoad: script to runs after the image is downloaded
  • SUPPRESS: Don't show icons of images that haven't downloaded yet

Starflower <IMG ...> puts an image on the web page. <IMG ...> requires two attributes: SRC and ALT. ALT is always required in <IMG ...> -- don't make the common mistake of leaving it out. See The Rules of ALT for more details.

this code produces this
<IMG SRC="starflower.gif" ALT="Starflower">
Starflower





About the Author
Copyright 1997-2002 Idocs Inc. Content in this guide is offered freely to the public under the terms of the Open Content License and the Open Publication License. Contents may be redistributed or republished freely under these terms so long as credit to the original creator and contributors is maintained.