HTML image tag

Learn how to add images in webpages using HTML image tag. You can display images content by adding the URL of the image in <img> tag.

There are two attributes of the tag to add images with alt text. These are src and alt HTML attributes to specify the images.

The alt attribute can be used to add alternate text to show. The alternate text will appear only when the image URL or the media is not available.

Syntax

Example

Output

HTML image

List of HTML image tag attributes

Sr. No. image attributes Description
1 src Used to get the url location of the image from where we get the image.
2 alt Used to show the alternative text when the server not able to find the image in the given location.
3 width Used to define the width of the image.
4 height Used to define the height of the image.

Resources and References

1. W3C Specification.
2. HTML living standard
3. W3C project using Github