thanks! i specify the sizes in the CSS for groupings of images that are all the same size (e.g. tthumbnails in a carousel or image gallery) and was just wondering if that is the correct thing to do.
Sara On Mar 24, 2011, at 9:44 PM, G.Sørtun wrote: >> Is there any reason to specify an image's height and width on the >> img tag rather than (or in addition to) specifying in the CSS? > > Setting and image's width and height in the HTML code, reserves the space for > that element before image gets loaded. I don't think there is any other > advantage, and I rarely ever set image width/height in the HTML code. > I don't set images' width/height in CSS either, other than as general and > standard-classes for max-width to make images play nice with my layouts. > >> Could specifying the width and height only in the CSS be a reason >> that an image might load more slowly (in modern browsers)? > > If one specify varying dimensions for loads of images in CSS everything may > slow down somewhat simply because of large CSS. > I haven't notices such slow-down for my own work since I don't set dimensions > anywhere. Have an example? > > regards > Georg > > ______________________________________________________________________ > css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] > http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d > List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ > List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html > Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
