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Re: Attach search tags to web images?

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On Tuesday, 26 November 2019 08:00:25 UTC, RG III  wrote:
> When users search for keywords on an HTML document, the browser obviously only scans text for those keywords.  But is it somehow possible to attach keywords to <img> elements that the browser can include in keyword searches?  If not, are there any other workarounds that might help browser keyword searches scroll down to an <img> element?

To include, in a browser Ctrl-F search, character-text which is within an image element, one must persuade the browser-makers to include that feature.  So try using the feedback already provided within some browsers, and be patient.

You could, however, place your image elements within text-container elements containing the text you want to be findable.  If you make that text font-size 1 pt white-on-white, few users will see it there.

If you are writing a page full of images, and don't insist on Ctrl-F, you can make your own Search Element, maybe position absolute top-right-corner, containing an Input type=text and an adjacent Button, which spiders all the IMG elements (or a suitable property of document.body) in whatever manner you choose.

I know that I have one page in which script rewrites the Body before display,
so all sorts of searches must be possible.


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Attach search tags to web images? RG III <mob.rrr.3@gmail.com> - 2019-11-26 00:00 -0800
  Re: Attach search tags to web images? "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2019-11-26 11:29 +0100
    Re: Attach search tags to web images? RG III <mob.rrr.3@gmail.com> - 2019-11-26 02:58 -0800
      Re: Attach search tags to web images? "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2019-11-26 12:57 +0100
        Re: Attach search tags to web images? "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2019-11-26 13:06 +0100
  Re: Attach search tags to web images? Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> - 2019-11-26 04:17 -0800
  Re: Attach search tags to web images? dr.j.r.stockton@gmail.com - 2019-11-26 04:23 -0800
    Re: Attach search tags to web images? dr.j.r.stockton@gmail.com - 2019-11-26 04:37 -0800
  Re: Attach search tags to web images? Martin Leese <please@see.Web.for.e-mail.INVALID> - 2019-11-27 13:29 -0700
  Re: Attach search tags to web images? Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2019-11-28 12:13 +0100

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