very basic HTML questions about images

Hello, I'm brand new to this forum and brand new to HTML, it all looks great.

I'd be so grateful if somebody could help me out with this:

I'd like to include a picture on a webpage. if i save the picture as say cat.gif then should <img src="cat.gif" /> display the image?

or do i need to include where the image is saved?

and do i need the / at the end?

so grateful for help,

Bradley

To Display cat.gif of your webpage, Put <img src="cat.gif">
There is noneed to type the URL of the Image,
aslong as its saved in the Same Folder as the WebPage that you want to display the Picture in!

<img src="foo.jpg" alt="Whatever Describes It" width="" height="" />

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it dosent have to be saved in the same file you can save it another file but you have totype in the whole path.
Example:
say you have a folder with you site and your index.htm is in that main folder. then you have a sub folder for images, thats where it should be. So your code would look like this...
<img src="images/cat.gif" width="XXpx" height="XXpx">

As you are new to this, hopefully you are coding in xhtml in which case yes, you do need the '/' and there should be a space before the '/>' closing characters.

Also,

If you have your site listed with a search engine you may want to add a title to your image to help the search engine's crawler...

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<img src="cat.gif" title="cat" />

And then of course specify width, height, etc.

This may be thinking to far ahead, but its good to know when you are looking to get higher up on a search engine's list, and a good habit to get into.