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Image alt tags not showing.

Posted on January 16, 2020

I keep on adding image alt tags to every image but it’s not showing. How can I solve the problem?



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Hi there @saikatm,

Alt tags on images are designed to only show when the image cannot be loaded or for use by screen-readers etc. In the normal operation of a website being viewed, they would not show.

if you’re wanting to add captions to your images, I would suggest making the img part of a figure and then adding a figcaption to them. You can read more about figcaptions here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/figcaption

Hope that helps! - Matt.

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