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what does this mean ? image/png;base64?

It’s an inlined image (png), encoded in base64. It can make a page faster: the browser doesn’t have to query the server for the image data separately, saving a round trip. (It can also make it slower if abused: these resources are not cached, so the bytes are included in each page load.)

Specifying width and height as percentages without skewing photo proportions in HTML

Note: it is invalid to provide percentages directly as <img> width or height attribute unless you’re using HTML 4.01 (see current spec, obsolete spec and this answer for more details). That being said, browsers will often tolerate such behaviour to support backwards-compatibility. Those percentage widths in your 2nd example are actually applying to the container your <img> is in, and not the image’s actual size. Say you … Read more

How to view .img files?

If you want to open .img files, you can use 7-zip, which is freeware… http://www.7-zip.org/ Once installed, right click on the relevant img file, hover over “7-zip”, then click “Open Archive”. Bear in mind, you need a seperate program, or Windows 7 to burn the image to disc! Hope this helps! Edit: Proof that it works (not … Read more

How to view .img files?

If you want to open .img files, you can use 7-zip, which is freeware… http://www.7-zip.org/ Once installed, right click on the relevant img file, hover over “7-zip”, then click “Open Archive”. Bear in mind, you need a seperate program, or Windows 7 to burn the image to disc! Hope this helps! Edit: Proof that it works (not … Read more

Transparent background in JPEG image

You can’t make a JPEG image transparent. You should use a format that allows transparency, like GIF or PNG. Paint will open these files, but AFAIK it’ll erase transparency if you edit the file. Use some other application like Paint.NET (it’s free). Edit: since other people have mentioned it: you can convert JPEG images into PNG, in any editor that’s … Read more

How do I add an image to an HTML file?

I saved an image to my computer in a folder called “images” and then tried to add it to an html page using the img tag (<img src=”images/app.png” alt=”problem”>). When I do this, it cannot find the image, and instead posts the alt text. When I try using images from the internet, it works fine, … Read more

Changing image size in Markdown

You could just use some HTML in your Markdown: Or via style attribute (not supported by GitHub) Or you could use a custom CSS file as described in this answer on Markdown and image alignment CSS in another file:

Changing image size in Markdown

You could just use some HTML in your Markdown: Or via style attribute (not supported by GitHub) Or you could use a custom CSS file as described in this answer on Markdown and image alignment CSS in another file:

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