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Building web pages with XHTML 1.1 | |
Use the img element to place photos,
diagrams, or other artwork on your page. The image must
be available at a location given by some URI.
This element is deprecated in favor of the more
generalized object element. See
Section 13, “The object element: Embedded multimedia
and applet objects”.
Here is the content model:
element img
{ attribute src { xsd:anyURI },
attribute alt { text },
attribute longdesc { xsd:anyURI }?,
attribute height { text }?,
attribute width { text }?,
Common.attrib,
empty
}
src
Use the URI of the image file as the value of the
src attribute.
alt
You should always provide a textual description of the image so blind readers will know what they aren't seeing.
longdesc
To make available a more complete description of
the image, place that description at some URI and
use that URI as the value of the longdesc attribute.
height
If you don't provide a height
attribute, the height of the image will be its
natural size. You can override that height by
specifying this attribute as a length; see Section 6.1, “The length datatype”.
width
As with the height attribute, you
can override the image's natural width by providing
a width attribute whose value is
specified as described in Section 6.1, “The length datatype”.
Common.attrib
This element supports all the attributes from Section 15.3, “The common attributes: Common.attrib”.
empty
No content is allowed inside an img
element.
Here's an example:
<img src="empgoo.gif" alt="Emperor Goose, Moss Landing, CA"/>