Alt attribute

Rarity: Common

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At a glance

Class

Notion

Domain

Science and technology

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What Wikipedia says

The alt attribute is the HTML attribute used in HTML and XHTML documents to specify alternative text (alt text) that is to be displayed in place of an element that cannot be rendered.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Alt attribute”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: Hayford Peirce, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.