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eozzy

Reputation: 68670

Safari doesn't display 'alt' text on Images?

<img src="image_that_may_or_may_not_load.png" alt="Show this text if image not loaded" />

Safari doesn't seem to show 'alt' text in case the image is not loaded. I'm not sure about other browsers, but Firefox does show the alternate text.

Its so important to display alt text in email templates where the images would be blocked by the client most likely, atleast until the user accepts to "display images from this user/site".

Any workaround for this?

Thanks

Upvotes: 4

Views: 9971

Answers (2)

eozzy
eozzy

Reputation: 68670

So it turns out, setting width and height for the image will show alt text incase the image is unavailable, not otherwise.

Upvotes: 3

Louis
Louis

Reputation: 4210

Try use the title attribute.

<img src="image_that_may_or_may_not_load.png" alt="Show this text if image not loaded" title="Show this text if image not loaded" />

Apparently from here: Alt text showing in IE and firefox but not in safari?. Safari doesn't support it.

Upvotes: 2

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