How to retrive the alt value from an image tag which is found in an tag

Question

Suppose i have

<html>    
<body>   
<a href="www.example.com" ><img src="www.example.com/gc_bt1.jpg" alt="Home page..." name="Image1" width="150" height="27" border="0" id="Image1" /></a>    </body>    </html>

how can i retrieve the alt value from the image tag.

Why are you trying parse this with PHP? That's a lot more complex than with javascript, because you actually need to parse the markup which brings in XML parsing/object reading. — helion3, Feb 01 '14 at 19:22
This was my [answer](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21390578/regular-expression-parsing-img-src-content-and-replacing-it-with-another-links/21399443#21399443) , it was for a but you could change it to a -Tag — demonking, Feb 01 '14 at 19:32
i think the solution about changing the to can actually work..I won't do that now because i am writing my own script :) i will try your given solution tomorrow :) — Johnson Smith, Feb 01 '14 at 20:33

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 01 '14 at 19:19

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you can use javascript for that

var x = document.getElementsByName("Image1").alt;

answered Feb 01 '14 at 19:19

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I want to use php to do that – Johnson Smith Feb 01 '14 at 19:20
However, watch for `getElementsByName` returning an array, `.alt` would not apply to the array but to the elements within. – helion3 Feb 01 '14 at 19:21

score -1 · Answer 2 · edited Feb 01 '14 at 19:21

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if you are using Jquery

var alt=$("a>img").attr('alt')

will give you the alt tag

edited Feb 01 '14 at 19:21

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answered Feb 01 '14 at 19:20

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How to retrive the alt value from an image tag which is found in an tag

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