The article discusses enhancing user experience in web design by styling elements, particularly how alt text appears when images do not load. It emphasizes the importance of writing descriptive alt text and offers practical CSS tips to improve the appearance of alt text. The author provides a solution using progressive enhancement techniques, including JavaScript to manage image loading errors, ensuring that alt text remains user-friendly while images load or fail to do so effectively.
The alt text is surfaced on the page when an image fails to load. It's yet another reason to write good alt text and really hone your skills in creating a user-focused experience by being descriptive.
By styling the <img> element, our alt text will have those styles applied because it is an attribute of the <img>. I'm making the <img> a block element here because I want to make sure the it fills its parent.
Collection
[
|
...
]