Image Alt Tags

[jonesypeter]

Hello,

 

I'm trying to add an alt tag to an image I am retrieving from a MySQL database but I am really struggling.  The image is displayed with:

 

echo "<td rowspan=3><img src=\"".$row['image_1']."\" > </td>";

 

 

What do I add include:

 

alt="some_text"

 

 

Many thanks

 

Peter Jones

 

 

 

[lemmin]

Since the image generation is dynamic, you have to have information about that image. Do you have the image's description in the database too? If not, you can just set the alt tag to be the filename of the image:

echo "<td rowspan=3><img alt=\"".$row['image_1']."\" src=\"".$row['image_1']."\" > </td>";

[jonesypeter]

Many thanks for the reply.  I have the field 'title' I can use.  So I have done:

 

echo "<td rowspan=3><img alt=\"".$row['title']."\" src=\"".$row['image_1']."\" > </td>";

 

 

The rendered HTML code comes through as:

 

<td rowspan=3><img alt="Firelord" src="/images/spectrum/loading/Firelord.gif" >

 

 

 

http://retro.getfreehosting.co.uk/retroseek.php?pid=1

 

The trouble is that the alt tag title is not appearing when I hover over the image

 

Thanks

 

Peter

[DavidAM]

ALT is used to display text INSTEAD of the image if the user has images turned off, or they are using a non-graphical browser. Some browsers display the ALT value in a "tooltip" just because they want to. However, you can use the TITLE attribute, which (I believe) most browsers will display as a "tooltip" on hover.