HTML help needed

[Goody_GTI]

Hi everyone,

I have a friend that wants to know if it is possible and if so how to link/display an image in html from another site, for instance in a product descrition on a 'popular auction site' ?

i thought it would be the usual

tags with a source in would that be along the right lines ?

 

[punky_munky]

That's bbcode, the html is:

For an image:
<img src="http://www.domain.com/image.jpg">
For a link:
<a href="http://www.domain.com/image.jpg">Link Text</a>

Hope that is what you're after. And don't go hotlinking images that aren't yours.

 

[RandomTom]

For an image:
<img src="http://www.domain.com/image.jpg">

<img src="http://www.domain.com/image.jpg" alt="text" />

the alt text is to help screenreaders and be more accessible and the closed tag is 'proper'.

 

[Goody_GTI]

excellent thanks for your help, will try that and see if it works, im preety sure thats what i was after

 

[punky_munky]

<img src="http://www.domain.com/image.jpg" alt="text" />

the alt text is to help screenreaders and be more accessible and the closed tag is 'proper'.

Yes but seeing as the html was for an auction site I don't think the alt text would be particularly useful. Still, it's good practice I suppose.

 

[Augmented]

and the closed tag is 'proper'.

Presuming we're talking about eBay here, then punky_munky's example without the self-closing tag would be 'proper' . Even though they're not declaring a doctype, it's fairly evident that they're not using XHTML. Though, yes, the alt attribute is a required attribute regardless of whether it's needed (it can be empty).

 

[Sic]

<img src="http://www.domain.com/image.jpg" alt="text" />

the alt text is to help screenreaders and be more accessible and the closed tag is 'proper'.

<img src="http://www.domain.com/image.jpg" alt="text" title="text" />
<img src="http://www.domain.com/image.jpg" alt="text" title="text">

if you fancy cramming your page with as many keywords as possible