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In HTML, an attribute of the img tag that allows persnickety browsers to display text in place of the image, or to indicate the content of the image to the visually impaired and search engine spiders.
In the event that an image displayed on a web page displays text or other information, the Alt attribute should be set with descriptive text so that persnickety browsers, visually impaired people, and search engines can read the description. A lot of SEO spammers get themselves banned from search engines by keyword stuffing their Alt attributes.
Some accessibility nuts like to ruin a webmasters day by insisting that every blasted, non-informative image must have an "Alt tag". Some of us cave in to their nonsense by using NiDE, but the truth is, there is no such thing as an Alt tag. Alt is an attribute of the img tag.
Some accessibility nuts like to ruin a webmasters day by insisting that every blasted, non-informative image must have an "Alt tag". Some of us cave in to their nonsense by using NiDE, but the truth is, there is no such thing as an Alt tag. Alt is an attribute of the img tag.
by Downstrike April 9, 2006
Get the Alt attribute mug.1. In music, short for Alternative.
2. In RPG, short for Alternate ID.
3. In MPD, short for alter or persona.
4. In keyboarding, the Alt key, located just to the left of the space bar.
5. In HTML, the alternative text attribute of the img tag.
2. In RPG, short for Alternate ID.
3. In MPD, short for alter or persona.
4. In keyboarding, the Alt key, located just to the left of the space bar.
5. In HTML, the alternative text attribute of the img tag.
1. I don't care for Alt Music.
2. My Alt is Downstrike.
3. I tried to list my alts once, but I lost count at 44.
4. The reason you don't see Alt is it's hidden under your left hand.
5. There's no such thing as an "alt tag". Alt is an attribute of the img tag.
2. My Alt is Downstrike.
3. I tried to list my alts once, but I lost count at 44.
4. The reason you don't see Alt is it's hidden under your left hand.
5. There's no such thing as an "alt tag". Alt is an attribute of the img tag.
by Downstrike April 9, 2006
Get the alt mug.He is not blind as a bat! He's visually impaired.
by Downstrike April 8, 2006
Get the visually impaired mug.1. A verbal or written flub-up in which one says what one really meant, rather than what one meant to say, by accidentally adding or subtracting a word or substituting a similar word that means something that indicates what one really thinks. The phenomenon is named after Sigmund Freud, who first described it.
2. Sigmund Freud in exhibitionistic drag.
2. Sigmund Freud in exhibitionistic drag.
1. I didn't mean to say the math teacher was fat. It was only a Freudian slip that I said her triangle had a hippopotamus when I meant to say hypotenuse.
2. No RL example known. If you do see it, snap that Kodak moment and post it.
2. No RL example known. If you do see it, snap that Kodak moment and post it.
by Downstrike April 8, 2006
Get the Freudian slip mug.Abbreviation for Multi-Level Marketing, a business model in which marketers are paid commissions on the sales of other marketers that they recruit, as well as on their own sales. To qualify as MLM, the business plan must actually focus upon selling a marketable product or service.
Business and marketing n00bs frequently confuse MLM with pyramid schemes, a business model that focuses on paying bonuses for recruiting people, rather than commissions on sales, because the criminals who start pyramid schemes like to scam n00bs and flatter themselves by calling their schemes MLM. They may even pretend to operate an MLM business by forcing marketers to stockpile unmarketable products to pretend they are selling it.
Anyone who calls a pyramid scheme MLM helps the scammers trick their victims.
Anyone who calls a pyramid scheme MLM helps the scammers trick their victims.
by Downstrike April 8, 2006
Get the MLM mug.A virally propagated scam, formerly sent entirely through snail mail, but now more frequently sent through email. It operates basically as a pyramid scheme in which the recipient is urged to send a small sum of money to each person on a short list of names and addresses, with the promise that they will receive a lot of money when they rotate their name into the list, and the oldest name off of it, and mail the letter to everyone they know.
Some chain letters try to scam people even further, by instructing them rotate their name into the oldest position, so that the very next recipient will rotate them off of it, so that only the first names and addresses on the list will get any money.
by Downstrike April 8, 2006
Get the chain letter mug.Late 70s and 80s slang, adj. As groovy and as it gets. Too cool to be just a passing fad, like saying tubular turned out to be.
Derived from a way cool 1973 album, titled Tubular Bells, by Mike Oldfield.
Vals picked up the word and that was the death of saying tubular. If it weren't for so many Vals saying, like tubular that other people associated it with Valspeak, people wouldn't have become afraid to continue saying tubular when Valspeak went out of style.
Derived from a way cool 1973 album, titled Tubular Bells, by Mike Oldfield.
Vals picked up the word and that was the death of saying tubular. If it weren't for so many Vals saying, like tubular that other people associated it with Valspeak, people wouldn't have become afraid to continue saying tubular when Valspeak went out of style.
Even now, Peeps are still grooving to Tubular Bells, and they figured out by the 80s that it wasn't just a passing fad, so anything groovy enough to outlast a fad became tubular. It's too bad saying tubular wasn't tubular.
by Downstrike May 18, 2006
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