The IMG Tag

Use the <IMG> tag in your HTML document to insert images. The basic syntax of this tag is:

<IMG SRC="URL">

Where IMG states this is an inline image, and SRC specifies the source of the image as a URL. The <IMG> tag does not use an ending tag (</IMG>). The <IMG> tag is a point tag. We learned in the previous chapter that an URL (Uniform Resource Locator) is a file which can reside locally on the server or on another server.

Here are some important things to remember about an image:

The file specified should be an image in binary form, preferably in one of the following formats since most browsers support them.
- .gif
- .jpg
The image file should not be too large because:
- It will take a long time to load.
- It may be too big for the display window.

What else should the <IMG> tag have?