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Alt Attribute

February 22nd, 2007 by Rose DesRochers · 8 Comments

In my post 13 blogging mistakes some bloggers commented that they did not know what alt description tags are.

The alt attribute provides a short description of the image. It is the word that appears in the box when you hover your mouse pointer over a picture.

Ex: When you hover your pointer over Garfield.

Alt description tags provide a description for screen readers and text browsers to read.

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It will look like this: Alt Attribute

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8 responses so far ↓

Pink // Feb 22, 2007 at 7:37 pm

hmm…i think i’m completely technophobic…I wouldn’t know how to make an alt tag!
Peg // Feb 22, 2007 at 8:03 pm

Very cool! Thanks so much…
Rose DesRochers // Feb 22, 2007 at 8:15 pm

Pink, I provided you with the code for the alt attribute.

Peg, my pleasure.
Marcia // Feb 22, 2007 at 10:03 pm

Thank you, Rose, I had seen that in some of the HTML I stumbled on, but had no idea what on earth it was!
Hammer // Feb 22, 2007 at 10:19 pm

Thanks, never knew that.
Robin // Feb 23, 2007 at 1:29 am

I’m a technodunce, I haven’t the faintest idea what that’s all about, but it does look impressive :wink:.

Thanks for visiting me.
Christine // Feb 23, 2007 at 3:09 pm

I’ve always wondered how to do that! Thank you for passing on the info.
Rose DesRochers // Feb 23, 2007 at 9:38 pm

Marcia and Robin w3schools.com is a wonderful resource.

Hammer and Christine, my pleasure.