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To: AnAmericanMother
To vannroxs's answer I will add:

It can be helpful to add the image height and width as well. This allows the browser to set aside space for the picture before it is downloaded.

Without this the browser may have to wait for the picture to finish downloading before it can display the page. With it, the browser can display a "placeholder" and download the text surrounding the picture making the page appear more quickly for people with slow connections.

The final tag would look like this
<img src="url" height="image height" width="image width">

In the right-click menu, the dimensions are given as width x height (I think).

Also, always include the http://

You can practice posting pictures in the HTML sandbox
60 posted on 06/17/2002 5:46:32 PM PDT by evilC
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To: evilC; vannrox
And THANK YOU vannrox and evilC too!

I will shuffle on over to the Sandbox and practice building very small sandcastles . . . ;-)

61 posted on 06/17/2002 7:08:43 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother
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