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CSS Treehouse Club: CSS My First Web Page Changing Your HTML

Dale Whetton
Dale Whetton
1,081 Points
Posted by Dale Whetton
Dale Whetton
1,081 Points

Am I missing something regarding <img src=....

Q in the title and please image :)

index.html 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>All About Joy's Page</title>
    <link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans' rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
    <link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet">
  </head>   
  <body> 
    <img src="sam.jpg"> <alt src="sam.jpg">

    <h1>Dale Whetton</h1>

    <h2>Junior Developer</h2>

    <h3>Gateshead</h3>

    <h4>What I do:</h4>
       <p>I'm a teacher at Treehouse, but you should write in what you do here!</p>

    <h4>What I enjoy doing:</h4>  
      <p>When I'm not writing code, I like to surf and play music. Your turn, write in something that makes you happy, or things you like to do in your free time.</p>

  </body>
</html>
style.css 
/***********************************************
Top bar color 
***********************************************/
html {
  border-top: 20px solid #8A85A5;
}

/***********************************************
Body styling 
***********************************************/
body {
  max-width: 600px;
  margin: 0 auto;
  padding: 20px 20px;
  font-size: 1.3em;
  line-height: 1.6em;
  font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, serif;
  color: #777;
  font-weight: 300;
}

.centered {
  text-align: right;
}

/***********************************************
Image styling 
***********************************************/
img {
  border-radius: 100%;
  max-width: 340px;
}

/***********************************************
Headline styling 
***********************************************/
h1 {
  font-size: 1.5em;
  line-height: .5em;
  color: #564581;
}

h2 {
  font-size: 1em;
  line-height: 1em;
  font-style: oblique;
  color: #aaa;
}

h3 {
  font-size: .875em;
  line-height: 1em;
  font-weight: normal;
}

h4 {
  margin-top: 60px;
  font-weight: 500;
  color: #564581;
}

1 Answer

Valeshan Naidoo
Valeshan Naidoo
27,008 Points
Valeshan Naidoo
Valeshan Naidoo
27,008 Points

So you have created a separate tag for the alt attribute. Alt attributes are contained within the img tag and provide a description of what the image is showing. They're not a separate element. Your code should look like this:

<img src="sam.jpg" alt="joy">

Hope this helps.