How to Have ALT Without IMG Elements

James Jackson will Tell you how to have ALT without IMG Elements. The issue arises when you move from table based layout to css based layout where you stick all your images as backgrounds of DIV elements.

One Response to “How to Have ALT Without IMG Elements”

  1. Skye said on March 8th, 2005 at 3:54 pm

    A somewhat comprehensive list of image replacement techniques like this (and the pros and cons of each) can be found here:
    http://www.mezzoblue.com/tests/revised-image-replacement/

    See the “reduced page” link in the second graph. I prefer the “Phark Revisited” method which does not require the use of non-semantic nested span tags.