One of the attractive features of WEB is the incorporation of images in your
HTML documents. The image below is incorporated with the tag IMG.
<IMG SRC="uvalogo.gif" ALT="UvA logo" ALIGN="BOTTOM">
The attributes are
- SRC
- specifies the URL where the picture can be found.
- ALT
- Not all graphics types are recognized by a browser. If a browser is unable
to display the picture itself, the value of the ALT field is shown instead.ALT
comes from alternative. At this moment, GIF-pictures and JPEG-pictures are
displayed nicely by almost all browsers.
- ALIGN
- The positioning on the page is steered by the ALIGN field. Possible values
are TOP, MIDDLE and BOTTOM (default). The Netscape browser allows you also other
positions like LEFT and RIGHT. They refer to the margins of the displayed
document.
Small little images
that are used often, are called icons. You can insert them in your text easily
as is done with this bullet . Often icons
are stored in a central place on your WEB server, like in a directory
/icons
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