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HTML Introduction to HTML and CSS (2016) HTML: The Structural Foundation of Web Pages and Applications Test: Creating an HTML Element

Posted by Carlton Boutwell
Carlton Boutwell
109 Points

give the image tag a src

im very new to this and guess im not understanding

index.html 
<!doctype>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>My trip to Spain</title>
  </head>
  <body>

    <img alt="A picture of me in Spain">
    <img src= "images/spain.jpg"
    Here is a picture of me in Spain last summer!
    <a>Go back to the top of the page.</a>

  </body>
</html>
Rafal Dziobek
Rafal Dziobek
3,771 Points

hey there it should have been ;

<img src= "images/spain.jpg" alt="A picture of me in Spain">
Robert Watkin
Robert Watkin
733 Points
Robert Watkin
Robert Watkin
733 Points

As Rafal has shown above you need to have both the src and alt attributes within the image tag. Your first answer had two image tags. One with just the alt attribute and the second just had the src attribute. This technically meant you were trying to add two images; one without a src and one without an alt attribute. I'm also assuming the text "Here is a picture of me in Spain last summer!" is something you want to be displayed on the website. The proper way you should do this is to have that text within a tag. Try a paragraph tag, there are other tags you could use as well such as header tags.

Hope this helps :)

3 Answers

Mohamed Ahmed
Mohamed Ahmed
7,449 Points
Mohamed Ahmed
Mohamed Ahmed
7,449 Points

The right answer should be like that

<!doctype>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>My trip to Spain</title>
  </head>
  <body>

    <img src= "images/spain.jpg" alt=" Here is a picture of me in Spain last summer!">

    <a>Go back to the top of the page.</a>

  </body>
</html>
Stephen Bolger
Stephen Bolger
4,505 Points
Stephen Bolger
Stephen Bolger
4,505 Points

Elements in HTML use attributes to provide necessary and optional information. An image uses the <img> tag and requires the src attribute to state the path to the image -- where the image is in your site's folder structure. You can specify one or more attributes for an element inside the element's opening tag. Also, it's helpful to remember that some elements have an opening and closing tag, and images don't have a closing tag. So, the following shows the src and alt attributes added to the <img> element.

Hope this helps along with the answers already provided.

<img src="images/spain.jpg" alt="A image of me in Spain">

Pepe Toño
Pepe Toño
13,815 Points
Pepe Toño
Pepe Toño
13,815 Points

All the parameters for an html control in no particular order, in this case "img", goes inside the opening tag "<img>" as everyone answers in their examples. So the correct syntax is <img alt="" src="">