• New Zealand Government Web Standards 2.0

• New Zealand Government Web Standards 1.0
  • » 1. Images
  • » 2. Colour
  • » 3. Site Markup
  • » 4. Special Purpose Documents
  • » 5. Writing Content
    • 5.1 Identify changes in natural language of document text
    • 5.2 Identify the primary natural language of a document
    • 5.3 Expansion of abbreviations and acronyms in a document
    • 5.4 Substituting umlauted vowels for macronised vowels
    • 5.5 Height and width attributes are specified in the IMG element
    • 5.6 Underlining is not used for any items making up text or headings
    • 5.7 Provide metadata to pages and sites
    • Recommendation 5.1.1 Use the clearest and simplest language appropriate for the site content
    • Recommendation 5.1.2 Supplement text with graphic or auditory presentations
    • Recommendation 5.1.3 The alt text ends with a full point and a space
  • » 6. Site Content
  • » 7. Page Layout
  • » 8. Navigation
  • » 9. Style Sheets
  • » 10. Dynamic Content
  • » 11. Tables
  • » 12. Frames
  • » 13. Scripting and Applets
  • » 14. Page Refreshing
  • » 15. Site Behaviour
  • » 16. Site Layout
  • » 17. Archiving
  • » 18. Quality Assurance
  • » 19. Data Tracking
  • » 20. Authentication
  • » 21. Security
  • » 22. Online Forms
  • » 23. Tendering and Contracting
  • » 30. Site Delivery
  • » 31. Operational
  • » 32. Web Strategy

5.5 Height and width attributes are specified in the IMG element

The Standard

5.5 The height and width attributes of images must be specified in the IMG element.

Guide to this standard

The dimensions applied should be the actual dimensions of the image.

Rationale for this standard

Users who have slow connections can still obtain most of the textual content in a requested page before all the images have been downloaded, as opposed to having to wait for all content of the page to be rendered.