Web Developer's Reference Guide

Embedded content

The following elements are used to embed media or other objects into the document.

img

The img element is the image element:

<img alt crossorigin height ismap sizes src srcset width />

Attributes

The attributes that are used in the img element are as follows:

• alt: This is the alternate text for the image. Use this to describe the image. This is used to enhance accessibility.
• crossorigin: This lets the browser know whether this image should be fetched with a CORS request. If the image will be modified in a canvas element and not from the same domain name, then a CORS request must be used.
• height: This is an attribute to set the height of the image.
• ismap: This lets the browser know whether the image is used in a server-side map.
• sizes: This ...