What Do You Mean By Alt Tag?

[stuartspindlow2]

Hello Friends,

Please tell me What do you mean by alt tag.

[Emma Taylor]

Alt tag is actually used as an alternate text for the image. The alt text describes the image and the function of the image on the page.

[seojesica]

Alt tags is the type of tags, It represents your web pages images.

[acheter]

Doing the same search using image alt attribute you will see about 188,000 results returned which include Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Using ALT attributes smartly and the W3C (World Wide Consortium) Objects, Images, and Applets in HTML documents (the W3C is the organization who writes the specifications for HTML coding and other Internet related specifications).

[moria]

Alt text (alternative text) is a word or phrase that can be inserted as an attribute in an HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) document to tell Web site viewers the nature or contents of an image. The alt text appears in a blank box that would normally contain the image.

[SCARLETT]

The term "ALT tag" is a common shorthand term used to refer to the ALT attribute within in the IMG tag. Any time you use an image, be sure to include an ALT tag or ALT text within the IMG tag. Doing so will provide a clear text alternative of the image for screen reader users.