tag not showing the image

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I have a img tag with src = "file:///C:/Users/king/Documents/testing.jpg". This tag is not showing the image . Whats the problem ?

I guess the image is not loaded, did you try to set an "alt" test and see if it appears ? — Julien Ch., Jul 16 '12 at 15:02
you should provide more context, and a real excerpt from your HTML. — Julien Ch., Jul 16 '12 at 15:04
Related? [Why can't I do ?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4090712/why-cant-i-do-img-src-c-localfile-jpg) — , Jul 16 '12 at 15:19

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 16 '12 at 15:01

img tag doesn't have a href attribute.. that's for links.

Use src="image path here" instead. The full tag is <img src="path" alt="alt text" />
Make sure the path leads to a valid file
Put the path in quotes
Know that it will display a file from your computer and this will only work if the HTML page is locally stored on your computer.

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 16 '12 at 15:02

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The problem might be arising because the address that you have goes to a file on your computer. If someone else is trying to access this page from a webserver, they most likely will not have your file at that same location on their computer.

answered Jul 16 '12 at 15:02

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 16 '12 at 15:05

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<a href="file:///C:/Users/King/Documents/testing.jpg"><img src="file:///C:/Users/King/Documents/testing.jpg" /></a>

Must work

Be sure if testing.jpg is there.. Maybe is testing.JPG ..

answered Jul 16 '12 at 15:05

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Jul 16 '12 at 15:03

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<img src="FILE"> is the correct format.

answered Jul 16 '12 at 15:03

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Jul 16 '12 at 15:03

<img src="path/to/file.jpg" alt="This is my image" />is a correct tag...try that instead And you cant use a local path like that, it goes to a file on your harddrive, nobody else can access it if you put it online. Use a relative link instead like "rootfolder/images/yourimage.jpg"

score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Jul 16 '12 at 15:10

Due to security reasons, I'm not sure if a browswer can always access a protocol of file:// are you running on localhost? If not that is your reason. I would advise you to always use relational URLS if possible so if your HTML is in Documents then src="testing.jpg" would be fine.

In general I would recommend having the images in a subfolder of where your index file is to make it easier and to allow relative urls such as "./images/testing.jpg" or "../images/testing.jpg".

score 0 · Answer 7 · answered Jul 16 '12 at 15:38

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use relative paths as opposed to absolute for example if the image file was to folders above where the place you are storing your webpage at use ../../testing.jpg

answered Jul 16 '12 at 15:38

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