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ImageField.AlternateText Property

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Definition

Namespace:
System.Web.UI.WebControls
Assembly:
System.Web.dll

Gets or sets the alternate text displayed for an image in the ImageField object.

public:
 virtual property System::String ^ AlternateText { System::String ^ get(); void set(System::String ^ value); };
public virtual string AlternateText { get; set; }
member this.AlternateText : string with get, set
Public Overridable Property AlternateText As String

Property Value

String

The alternate text for an image displayed in the ImageField object. The default is an empty string (""), which indicates that this property is not set.

Examples

The following example demonstrates how to use the AlternateText property to specify the alternate text for all images displayed in an ImageField object.


<%@ Page language="C#" %>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
  <head runat="server">
    <title>ImageField Example</title>
</head>
<body>
    <form id="form1" runat="server">
        
      <h3>ImageField Example</h3>
                       
      <asp:gridview id="EmployeesGrid"
        autogeneratecolumns="false"
        datasourceid="EmployeeSource"  
        runat="server">
      
        <columns>

          <asp:imagefield dataimageurlfield="PhotoPath"
            alternatetext="Employee Photo"
            nulldisplaytext="No image on file."
            headertext="Photo"  
            readonly="true"/>
          <asp:boundfield datafield="FirstName"
            headertext="First Name"/>
          <asp:boundfield datafield="LastName"
            headertext="Last Name"/>
        
        </columns>
        
      </asp:gridview>
          
      <!-- This example uses Microsoft SQL Server and connects  -->
      <!-- to the Northwind sample database. Use an ASP.NET     -->
      <!-- expression to retrieve the connection string value   -->
      <!-- from the Web.config file.                            -->
      <asp:sqldatasource id="EmployeeSource"
        selectcommand="Select [EmployeeID], [LastName], [FirstName], [PhotoPath] From [Employees]"
        connectionstring="<%$ ConnectionStrings:NorthWindConnectionString%>" 
        runat="server"/>
            
    </form>
  </body>
</html>


<%@ Page language="VB" %>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
  <head runat="server">
    <title>ImageField Example</title>
</head>
<body>
    <form id="form1" runat="server">
        
      <h3>ImageField Example</h3>
                       
      <asp:gridview id="EmployeesGrid"
        autogeneratecolumns="false"
        datasourceid="EmployeeSource"  
        runat="server">
      
        <columns>

          <asp:imagefield dataimageurlfield="PhotoPath"
            alternatetext="Employee Photo"
            nulldisplaytext="No image on file."
            headertext="Photo"  
            readonly="true"/>
          <asp:boundfield datafield="FirstName"
            headertext="First Name"/>
          <asp:boundfield datafield="LastName"
            headertext="Last Name"/>
        
        </columns>
        
      </asp:gridview>
          
      <!-- This example uses Microsoft SQL Server and connects  -->
      <!-- to the Northwind sample database. Use an ASP.NET     -->
      <!-- expression to retrieve the connection string value   -->
      <!-- from the Web.config file.                            -->
      <asp:sqldatasource id="EmployeeSource"
        selectcommand="Select [EmployeeID], [LastName], [FirstName], [PhotoPath] From [Employees]"
        connectionstring="<%$ ConnectionStrings:NorthWindConnectionString%>" 
        runat="server"/>
            
    </form>
  </body>
</html>

Remarks

Use the AlternateText property to specify the alternate text for the images displayed in an ImageField object. The alternate text is displayed when an image cannot be loaded or is unavailable. Browsers that support the ToolTips feature also display this text as a ToolTip.

Note

When this property is set, all images displayed in an ImageField object share the same alternate text. As an alternative, you can bind the alternate text to a field in a data source by setting the DataAlternateTextField property instead of this property. This allows you to have different alternate text for each image displayed. If both the AlternateText and DataAlternateTextField properties are set, the DataAlternateTextField property takes precedence.

The value of this property, when set, can be saved automatically to a resource file by using a designer tool. For more information, see LocalizableAttribute and Globalization and Localization.

Applies to

See also