Mark Davison <mark.davison[_at_]law.monash.edu.au> wrote:
>
> I'm really embarrased to ask but can someone give a brief
> explanation of what IMG links are?
Nothing embarrassing here. Web pages are created using HyperText Markup Language, HTML. Web browsers download a page and interpret the markup, which many people think of as the "tags." An example is
<html><head><title>
This Is a Sample of Some Markup</title</head>
<body> <h1>This Is a Heading for the Sample</h1> <p>Paragraphs are denoted by a tag for paragraphs, and we can put a GIFor JPG photo in our page with the following tag:</p>
<img src=myphoto.gif>
<p>Now some more text.</p>
</body></html>
That's the end of the example. Using the tag for IMG, the photo called myphoto.gif would displayed in the example page between two paragraphs. In this example, the GIF is displayed as a part of the page. If I had used an anchor, the image would not be shown, but instead a link to the image would be created, requiring the reader of the example page to select the link to see the image. Thus,
<a href="http://www.somewhere.com/~yourhome/myphoto.gif">Click here</a>
That would be an anchor to the picture, and your reader would see "Click here" as the link and would not see myhphoto.gif until the reader selects the anchor. I think it might be confusing to refer to the use of the IMG tag as a link, since many people consider links to be anchors which can be selected to go to a new page. IMG is not, by itself, selectable (but it can be put in an anchor, for example as a small thumbnail to be selected to go to a larger version of the image).
Hope that helps.
Phil Stripling
philip[_at_]crl.com
Received on Thu Jun 19 1997 - 16:51:04 GMT
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