Re: Attach search tags to web images?

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On 26.11.19 09:00, 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

No.

> that might help browser keyword searches scroll down to an <img>
> element?

Put the text before or after the image as caption. Having "invisible"
text which is only used when searching for it, is a bad idea anyway. The
alt attributes in images are an exception as these are used *instead* of
the image in case people can not see the image itself.

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Arno Welzel
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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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