Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-9605025-20170102050208/@comment-9605025-20170102223224

Thanks to all of you for trying to explain. From your comments, I think the answer to my first question is that documentation is ambiguous and so is the actual behavior. To my second question, the answer is no.

reply to #11 ...First, w3schools is not an authoritative source. Secondly, you're misunderstanding the comments on that page. The alt is displayed not when the image doesn't exist, but when the device doesn't show the image for whatever reason,... Okay, so maybe that one source isn't definitive. However, the site you suggested, w3c, isn't much more help here and only implies your statement here. Also, w3schools is not the only source that suggests what I thought would happen. The only sites which explain the alt attribute in a manner consistent with what I have been seeing is about.com and microsoft.com. Even then, they still imply that the alt text should be rendered when the image cannot be used. Note that mozilla.org and htmldog.com both explicitly state that the text is displayed when the image is not available; contrary to your claim. ...The center tag is deprecated.... I was unaware of this. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. However, one would hope that they would still work since a lot of older websites use them.
 * 1) mozilla.org
 * 2) htmldog.com
 * 3) quackit.com
 * 4) htmlquick.com

reply to #12 Thanks, but that doesn't quite match what I was asking about. I don't want to center all non-labelled cells, just one or two of them.