CSS image replacement

CSS image replacement is a Web design technique that uses Cascading Style Sheets to replace text on a Web page with an image containing that text. It is intended to keep the page accessible to users of screen readers, text-only web browsers, or other browsers where support for images or style sheets is either disabled or nonexistent, while allowing the image to differ between styles. Also named Fahrner image replacement for Todd Fahrner, one of the persons originally credited with the idea of image replacement in 2003.[1]

With the introduction of CSS web font support in all major web browsers, CSS image replacement is now little used.

  1. ^ Bowman, Douglas (2003-03-07). "Using background image to replace text". Stopdesign. Retrieved 2011-04-05.