In web development, the alt attribute in the <img> tag is essential for accessibility and SEO. It provides alternative text for images, ensuring that users who cannot see the images understand their content. This tutorial will show you how to set `alt` tags effectively.
To set an alt tag for an image in HTML, use the alt attribute within the <img> tag.
The alt attribute provides alternative text for the image, which is displayed if the image cannot be loaded and is used by screen readers for accessibility.
Step 1: Create an <img> tag:
<img src = "image.png"/>
Now an img tag is created though which a image in the src attribute renders in the browser.
In case, do to some network issues or the people who don’t able to see the image opens our webpage, what will happen?
To avoid such issues, here comes the alt attribute.
Step 2: Setting alt attribute.
<img src = "image.png" alt = "Nature image"/>
After adding the alt attribute it is easily for the SEO to render the image very quickly.
Output: Image with alt attribute (Image rendered)
Output: Image with alt attribute (Image not rendered)
Its seen that instead of the image the text in the alt attribute is displayed.
This is how we can set alt tag for an image.