inline image

World-Wide Web An image that appears within the body of a

web page. Most graphical web browsers can display both

GIF and JPG images inline. The web browser may give the

user an option to turn off inline images, to speed up the

display of web pages.

Other image formats may have to be displayed in a separate

window and/or by another application program.

An inline image in a web page is achieved with the IMG

HTML tag, which can take many attributes. The SRC

attribute gives the URL from which to fetch the image and

the ALT attribute gives text to display in place of the image

for users with images disabled or who are using text-only

browsers or text-to-speech convertors (e.g. blind users).

(1999-10-27)