HTML <img> Tag

Description

The <img> HTML element is intended for displaying images in the graphic format GIF, JPEG, SVG or PNG on a web page. The address of the image file is set via the src attribute. If necessary, you can make the image a link to another file by placing <img> in the container <a>.
Pictures can also be used as image maps when a picture contains active areas that act as links. Such a map in appearance is no different from a conventional image, but it can be divided into invisible zones of various shapes, where each of the areas serves as a link.

Properties

Permitted Parents: Any element that accepts embedded content
Content: None. It is an empty element.
Start/End Tags: Start tag: required, End tag: forbidden

Example

HTML

<img alt="Sunset Image" src="images/sunset.jpg" width="300" height="226">

Result

Attributes

Attribute	Definition
name	Assigns a name to an image. This is used when referencing the image with stylesheets or scripts. However, you should use the id attribute instead.
longdesc	Specifies a URI/URL of a long description - this can elaborate on a shorter description specified with the alt attribute.
src	Location of the image.
alt	Alternate text. This specifies text to be used in case the browser/user agent can't render the image.