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The IMG element

HTML provides the facility to embed in-line images in documents using the IMG element. Such images can be purely illustrative or can function as interactive elements themselves if used as the content of an anchor element. The syntax of the IMG element is:

      <IMG SRC="url" [ALT="description"] [ALIGN="spec"]  [ISMAP] >

The URL of the image file must be specified with the SRC attribute. All other attributes are optional.

• Simple images
• Creating images
• Images as hypertext links
• Image maps
  • Creating image maps for use with CERN and NCSA servers
  • The mapedit program
  • Specifying an image map in an HTML document
  • Button bars: an image map application

Spinning the Web by Andrew Ford
© 1995 International Thomson Publishing
© 2002 Andrew Ford and Ford & Mason Ltd
Note: this HTML document was generated in December 1994 directly from the LaTeX source files using LaTeX2HTML. It was formatted into our standard page layout using the Template Toolkit. The document is mainly of historical interest as obviously many of the sites mentioned have long since disappeared.