On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 2:04 PM, Křištof Želechovski <<a href="mailto:giecrilj@stegny.2a.pl">giecrilj@stegny.2a.pl</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
What is the advantage of cutting an image to parts<br>
and having the browser show them as one by putting them aside?<br>
I would rather use one big image in the first place.<br>
Chris<br>
<div></div></blockquote><div>On my company's web site, our header image is split into two parts. One is floated left, one is floated right, and they sit on top of a repeated background image. This lets the entire header smoothly scale to the width of the viewport. <br>
</div></div><br>Since the two images are just pieces of a complete header image, the alt text should only show up once. I just put the alt on the first image and use alt="" on the second, but it would be nice to have a canonical answer to this.<br>
<br>Note: I am *perfectly fine* with not introducing a new element or new attributes. I feel that just putting an alt text on one of the images and leaving the others blank is sufficiently semantic. However, I do believe that this is a useful case to address in the alt text guidelines.<br>
<br>~TJ<br>