Add ALTERNATIVE texts to our Images in HTML

We can add an alternative text to an image using the ALT setting shown in the example below:

<img src="http://www.yahoo.com/rainbow.gif" alt = "This is a text that goes with the image">

We should always add alternative texts to our images, so the users can get an idea of what the image is about before it is loaded. This becomes particularly important if the image is a link. Few things are as annoying as knowing that we want to leave the current page - and at the same time being forced to wait for an image to load before being able to do so. It is extremely temping to use the browser's straightforward options to leave the entire site instead.