When to leave the alt attribute empty Typically, the alt attribute is required; however, there are several cases in which the HTML spec says it is OK to leave the alt attribute’s contents empty. The alt attribute is the text equivalent of the image, which means that it should only be empty if the meaning … Read more
Alt is not a valid attribute for <a> elements. Use alt to describe images Use title to describe where the link is going. The textvalue (click here) is the most important part The title attribute gets more and more ignored. Google looks far more on the link text than the title attribute. For google the … Read more
They are used for different things. The alt attribute is used instead of the image. If the image can’t be shown, and in screen readers. The title attribute is shown along with the image, typically as a hover tooltip. One should not be used “instead” of the other. Each should be used properly, to do … Read more
Such things are best answered by looking at the official specification: go to the specification: https://www.w3.org/TR/html5/ search for “a element”: https://www.w3.org/TR/html5/text-level-semantics.html#the-a-element check “Content attributes”, which lists all allowed attributes for the a element: Global attributes href target download rel hreflang type check the linked “Global attributes”: https://www.w3.org/TR/html5/dom.html#global-attributes As you will see, the alt attribute is … Read more