What It Is & How to Use It Properly in 2023

An HTML image tag displays an image on a webpage. It’s a self-closing tag (meaning it’s structured in a way so you don’t have to add a separate closing tag) that contains the image source and other attributes.

Here’s an example of an image html tag:

<imgsrc="https://example.com/cat.jpg"alt="Furrywhitecatsittingonawall">

Now, let’s go over the HTML tag for images (also called an <img> tag) in detail.

How to Use the HTML Image Tag

You can insert the <img> tag in your HTML code anywhere you want to display an image. Like within the hero section on a product page.

And it always includes two required attributes:

• src: Indicates the path of the image that’s shown
• alt: Indicates alternative (alt) text that’s displayed if the image fails to load and for individuals using screen readers or other text-to-speech tools

The image isn’t directly embedded into the page but is loaded from the source path in the tag.

And the image can be sourced from anywhere—i.e., on the same server (referred to as a relative path) or a different one (referred to as an absolute path).

You can also nest the image tag inside other container tags—i.e., HTML tags with both opening and closing tags.

Here’s an example of an image tag nested inside an anchor tag that links to another website:

<ahref="https://example.com"><imgsrc="https://example.com/cat.jpg"alt="furrywhitecatsittingonawall"></a>

It creates a clickable image link.

Types of HTML Image Attributes

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