Image buttons have the same effect as a submit button, only difference is instead of a normal submit button we can place an image of our choice.
An Image button can be created as :
<input type="image" name="<Name of the image button >"
src="image source/path" border="border width" alt="Alternate text">
Using Image as submit button in HTML form with attributes
Attributes of Image Button:
Name: Specifies the name of the object through which it can be referenced. Src: Specifies the image source. i.e, the path of the image that has to be displayed. Border: Specifies the border of the image source. If 0 is given, then no border will be displayed. Alt: Specifies the alternate text that will appear if the image fails to load on a user's screen. height, width We can specify the dimensions of the image to display formaction: URL ( address ) to which the form will be submitted, this takes precedence over the action attribute of the form. formtarget: Where to display the target page ( response ), fromtarget=_blank will open a new window. formenctype: The encoding methods , the are application/x-www-form-urlencoded , multipart/form-data, text/plain
This places an image button within the HTML form, which can be referenced by using its name "imgbtn" with a Alt text "Tool Tip". Tooltip refers to the text that has to be displayed when we place mouse over the image.
Images can also act as hyperlinks just as normal text. Just as text is made as a hotspot so as an image. i.e, by enclosing the <img> tag wtihin the <a> ... </a> tags.
Here the image acts as a hotspot and navigates to the file target_page.htm
Just as an underline appears on the text if we enclose text within <a> ... </a> tags, a border will appear for the image that has been placed with in <a> ... </a> tags. You can remove the border by setting the border attribute of <img> tag to 0.