Posted by David Dorward on 10/28/38 11:26

Edward wrote:

> I'm creating and testing basic web pages, and learning HTML.
> How do you refer an image source or a link to a local file.jpg for
> example?

Absolute URLs? Depends on the browser and OS. You're almost certainly best
off using relative URLs ...

http://www.iusmentis.com/technology/www/relativeurls/

.... , or installing a webserver on your workstation ...

http://httpd.apache.org/

> I've tried <img src="C:\image.jpg" align="center"/> without success.

Aside from the issues of how absolute URLs to local file systems are
handled, the "align" attribute is deprecated and should not be used, the
alt attribute (which you don't have) is required, and Appendix C of the
XHTML 1.0 spec requires a space before the "/" (although XHTML is not
usually a good idea and you would be better off sticking to HTML 4.01).

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