Safari doesn't display 'alt' text on Images?

Question

<img src="image_that_may_or_may_not_load.png" alt="Show this text if image not loaded" />

Safari doesn't seem to show 'alt' text in case the image is not loaded. I'm not sure about other browsers, but Firefox does show the alternate text.

Its so important to display alt text in email templates where the images would be blocked by the client most likely, atleast until the user accepts to "display images from this user/site".

Any workaround for this?

Thanks

Answer 1

Try use the title attribute.

<img src="image_that_may_or_may_not_load.png" alt="Show this text if image not loaded" title="Show this text if image not loaded" />

Apparently from here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1897367/alt-text-showing-in-ie-and-firefox-but-not-in-safari. Safari doesn't support it.

Answer 2

So it turns out, setting width and height for the image will show alt text incase the image is unavailable, not otherwise.