<img name="">
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- Attribute of
- HTML Tags Guide To Adding Images To Your Web Documents
- What does
<img name="">do? - Identified the image or provided additional information about it. Deprecated in HTML 4.0 in favor of other attributes.
Code Example
<!-- DEPRECATED. Do not do this. -->
<img src="/wp-content/uploads/flamingo.jpg" name="Flamingo">
How to Identify Images
The name attribute was originally used to identify images, but it has been deprecated since HTML 4.0. There are several other options for providing a unique name to an image:
id— A global attribute that must be unique.title— A global element, which is often displayed in a tooltip when the user hovers over an element.alt— An attribute of<img>, which is displayed when the image cannot be seen, and is used by some image-based search engines.
Other name attributes
While name attribute has been deprecated for the <img> element, it is still used for form input elements, where it defines the key in a key-value pair representing the input when the form is submitted.
