Images in HTML
The image tag allows you to add images to your page. You might notice that this tag looks a little different than those
you've seen before. Unlike paragraph, header, or list tags, the image tag doesn't require a closing tag. All of the
information needed to display your image is contained within the tag itself.
Image Source and Alternate Text
In order to tell the browser which file to use, extra information, called an attribute, is added to the image tag inside the
brackets. The attribute src stands for source and tells the name of the image, and the attribute alt describes the
image.
1.
Create an image tag using the abbreviation img. This is considered a self closing tag, since it
doesn't need to wrap text as many other tags do. The
/
right before the ending
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