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Graphical Images

Inline graphical images are images placed in the text where they happen to be encountered by the browser, rather than at a definite position on the page. An example is this image of a smiley face. Inline graphics may end up anywhere across a page. It is safest to put them flush left, by having them follow <BR> or <P> tags. Netscape extensions to HTML include commands to produce images around which text wraps.

Images should be in GIF (Graphics Interchange Format), although some browsers also handle JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) format.

An image is placed inline by the tag <IMG SRC="filename.gif">, where the filename could be that of a file on the server or the URL of a file on a distant computer. Example: <IMG SRC="pictures/lbolt.gif"> produces .

Images can be placed within anchors, in which case they are active, like the navigation buttons at the top of this page.

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