Help on my Blog

I'm sure it's an easy question for most of you. I actually fixed about 4 other problems myself Anyway, could some one go to my blog blog.browie.com and click the Valid XHTML and tell me what's wrong with the image? Or should I just leave it?

 

You just need an alt tag on the image. put alt="some text here describing what the image is for" before your closing tag.

i.e.

<img src="http://blog.browie.com/pic/feed.png" alt="some text" />

Code (markup):

 

Sweet, next time i'll type in some random description.

 

Not random. A proper description. The alt is there to describe the image to people who can't see images in their browser or who can't see images, period.

Of course, if your image is only decorative, then there's no reason to describe it. Try to imagine how it would affect a blind person whether there was a description for that image or not. And if you think it would make more harm than good, then leave the description out. That's why it's only a warning and not an error.

 

Actually, the alt attribute is required. It is ok to provide a NULL value, thus <img src="some.png" alt=""> is perfectly legal, and preferable to omitting the attribute.

cheers,

gary

 

Thanks for the clarification. I really thought it was optional.

 

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