from
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
inline image
<World-Wide Web> An image that appears within the body of a
{web page}. Most graphical {web browsers} can display both
{GIF} and {JPG} images inline. The {web browser} may give the
user an option to turn off inline images, to speed up the
display of web pages.
Other {image formats} may have to be displayed in a separate
{window} and/or by another {application program}.
An inline image in a web page is achieved with the <IMG>
{HTML} {tag}, which can take many attributes. The SRC
attribute gives the {URL} from which to fetch the image and
the ALT attribute gives text to display in place of the image
for users with images disabled or who are using text-only
browsers or text-to-speech convertors (e.g. blind users).
(1999-10-27)