How to wrap the alt text area when an image is missing?

ranjithkr1 · 06-13-2005

I have inserted an image in a jsp page and am calling its alt tag from a database. Now, when the img is missing i get long alt messages being displayed in the page. i dont want those text to be so lenghty.....can i reduce the text length by wrap or something similar? Its ok if the height of the alt area gets increased...

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supafly · 06-13-2005

I don't think you can! You should just shorten them all though I'm sure someone else can help you if i'm wrong but alt text should be just a short descripton not a long thing as it's just to help blind people when they read the site with a audio program that reads the site so it tells them what the image is!

But like I say I could be wrong

ranjithkr1 · 06-13-2005

Thank you my supafly .....for your effort.. Ill try it out and please try to come up with a possibiliity..Cheers...

**Man1c M0g** · 06-13-2005

Hmmm. If you are drawing the ALT value from a database you could always trim it to size using the substr() function in PHP.

ranjithkr1 · 06-15-2005

Thank you man1c m0g, I shall make a try and get back soon...