Re: Has anyone got an opinion on this?

by "Abhay S. Kushwaha" <abhay(at)kushwaha.com>

Date:	Sun, 21 May 2000 22:06:17 +0530
To:	"Basics [HWG]" <hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
References:	celticweb
	todo: View Thread, Original

No, you should not ignore it. ALT is a very

   <important>IMPORTANT</important>

attribute of IMG tag. Never never never miss it. Make it a religion to
put the "height", "width" and "alt" attributes with the "img". :)

BTW, I use the following in cases like these

    alt=" "

Dunno rest. ;-)

[abhay]

----- Original Message -----
From: Steve burrill <steve.burrill(at)celtic-web.co.uk>
Subject: Has anyone got an opinion on this?


> I use the old singlepixel.gif trick quite a lot in tables to get
> them just the way I want. Out of curiosity I tried an online
> checker at www.hitbox.com. It reported every instance of my
> single pixel as an HTML error as I hadn't included an ALT tag.
>
> My question is should I ignore this, or is there any
> advantage/disadvantage in using an ALT such as ="."?

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