You can style alt text like any other text
Posted 2025-05-31 20:21:42
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You can style alt text like any other text | CSS-Tricks
Clever, clever that Andy Bell. He shares a technique for displaying image alt text when the image fails to load. Well, more precisely, it’s a technique to apply styles to the alt when the image doesn’t load, offering a nice UI fallback for what would otherwise be a busted-looking error.
The recipe? First, make sure you’re using alt in the HTML. Then, a little JavaScript snippet that detects when an image fails to load:
const images = document.querySelectorAll("img");
if (images) {
images.forEach((image) => {
image.onerror = () => {
image.setAttribute("data-img-loading-error", "");
};
});
}
That slaps an attribute on the image — data-img-loading-error — that is selected in CSS:
img[data-img-loading-error] {
--img-border-style: 0.25em solid
color-mix(in srgb, currentColor, transparent 75%);
--img-border-space: 1em;
border-inline-start: var(--img-border-style);
border-block-end: var(--img-border-style);
padding-inline-start: var(--img-border-space);
padding-block: var(--img-border-space);
max-width: 42ch;
margin-inline: auto;
}
And what you get is a lovely little presentation of the alt that looks a bit like a blockquote and is is only displayed when needed.
Andy does note, however, that Safari does not render alt text if it goes beyond a single line, which 🤷♂️.
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