Sams Teach Yourself HTML 4 in 24 Hours
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- About the Author
- Acknowledgments
- Tell Us What You Think!
- Put Your HTML Page Online Today
- I. Your First Web Page
- Hour 1. Understanding HTML and XML
- Hour 2. Create a Web Page Right Now
- Hour 3. Linking to Other Web Pages
- Hour 4. Publishing Your HTML Pages
- II. Web Page Text
- Hour 5. Text Alignment and Lists
- Hour 6. Text Formatting and Font Control
- Hour 7. Email Links and Links Within a Page
- Hour 8. Creating HTML Forms
- III. Web Page Graphics
- Hour 9. Creating Your Own Web Page Graphics
- Hour 10. Putting Graphics on a Web Page
- Hour 11. Custom Backgrounds and Colors
- Hour 12. Creating Animated Graphics
- IV. Web Page Design
- Hour 13. Page Design and Layout
- Hour 14. Graphical Links and Imagemaps
- Hour 15. Advanced Layout with Tables
- Hour 16. Using Style Sheets
- V. Dynamic Web Pages
- Hour 17. Embedding Multimedia in Web Pages
- Hour 18. Interactive Pages with Applets and ActiveX
- Hour 19. Web Page Scripting for Non-Programmers
- Hour 20. Setting Pages in Motion with Dynamic HTML
- VI. Building a Web Site
- Hour 21. Multipage Layout with Frames
- Hour 22. Organizing and Managing a Web Site
- Hour 23. Helping People Find Your Web Pages
- Hour 24. Planning for the Future of HTML
- VII. Appendixes
- A. Readers' Most Frequently Asked Questions
- B. HTML Learning Resources on the Internet
- C. Complete HTML 4 Quick Reference
- D. HTML Character Entities
Summary
This hour has shown you how to use the <img /> tag to place graphics images on your Web pages. You learned to include a short text message to appear in place of the image as it loads and to appear whenever someone moves the mouse pointer over the image. You also learned to control the horizontal and vertical alignment of each image and how to make text wrap around the left or right of an image.
Finally, you learned how to make images into "buttons" that link to other pages by using the same <a> tag introduced in Hour 3. You also got a sneak preview of the kind of custom page backgrounds you'll learn to use in Hour 11.
Table 10.1 summarizes the attributes of the <img /> tag covered in this hour.
Table 10.1. HTML Tag and Attributes Covered in Hour 10
| Tag | Attribute | Function |
| <img /> | Places an image file within the page. | |
| src="&hellip" | The address or filename of the image. | |
| alt="&hellip" | A text message that can be displayed in place of the image. | |
| align="&hellip" | Determines the alignment of the given image. If left or right, the image is aligned to the left or right column, and all following text flows beside that image. All other values, such as top, middle, bottom, absmiddle, or absbottom, determine the vertical alignment of this image with other items in the same line. |
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