{"id":873,"date":"2022-08-12T12:10:10","date_gmt":"2022-08-12T12:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hostinger.io\/support\/2022\/08\/12\/6466460-hostinger-website-builder-how-to-add-alt-text\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T12:12:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T12:12:07","slug":"6466460-hostinger-website-builder-how-to-add-alt-text","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/6466460-hostinger-website-builder-how-to-add-alt-text\/","title":{"rendered":"Hostinger Website Builder: How to Add Alt Text"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"no-margin\">Adding <b>alternative text<\/b> to images not only makes your website more accessible for visitors (e.g., people using screen readers) but also helps search engines understand your page content better. In <b>Hostinger Website Builder<\/b>, there are two ways to add alt text to images:<\/p><ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\"><a href=\"#h_eeed083e72\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\">The media library<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\"><a href=\"#h_e9c593494a\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\">The image element settings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><h2 id=\"h_eeed083e72\">The Media Library<\/h2><p class=\"no-margin\">Within the builder, click on the <b>three dots<\/b> on the left to access <b>Website Settings<\/b>.<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2022\/08\/3a932e94-6187-432d-aa26-a956b11732e7.jpg\" width=\"300\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">Once the menu opens up, click on <b><a href=\"\/support\/7171600-website-builder-media-library\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\">Media library<\/a><\/b> and open the details of the preferred image file:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2022\/08\/546b52d5-8796-4fa5-a914-a35a26ad8a5a.jpg\" alt=\"Viewing file details in the media library\" width=\"500\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">Insert the description of the image and save it:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2022\/08\/f6fd434d-c135-4bcc-aaf1-a7a1b65d2b28.jpg\" alt=\"Adding alt text in the media library\" width=\"500\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><h2 id=\"h_e9c593494a\">In the Image Element Settings <\/h2><p class=\"no-margin\">Open a page on your website and click on the preferred image. Then, select <b>Change image<\/b>. In the image settings, find the <b>Alt text <\/b>field and insert a description of the image there:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2022\/08\/ee66abdc-274f-487f-8296-fb070215ff08.jpg\" alt=\"Adding alt text in the image element settings\" width=\"500\"><\/div><div class=\"intercom-interblocks-callout\" style=\"background-color: #e3e7fa80;border-color: #334bfa33\">\n<p class=\"no-margin\">You may also use an AI-generated alt text by clicking on<b> Suggest using AI &#10024; <\/b><\/p>\n<\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">If you run an online store, the <b>product title <\/b>is automatically used as the<b> alt text<\/b> for the main product image by default:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2022\/08\/c350587e-2039-45d8-96ef-a6331ef4fc33.jpg\" alt=\"Product title is used for the alt text of the main product image\" width=\"500\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn how to add alt text using Hostinger Website Builder<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"include_on_kodee":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[283],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seo-website-builder"],"hreflangs":[{"locale":"en-US","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/6466460-hostinger-website-builder-how-to-add-alt-text\/","default":1},{"locale":"es-ES","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/es\/support\/6466460-hostinger-creador-de-sitios-web-como-agregar-textos-alternativos-de-imagenes\/","default":0},{"locale":"fr-FR","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/fr\/support\/6466460-hostinger-createur-de-sites-web-comment-ajouter-du-texte-alt-aux-images\/","default":0},{"locale":"id-ID","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/id\/support\/6466460-hostinger-website-builder-cara-menambahkan-alt-text\/","default":0},{"locale":"lt-LT","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/lt\/support\/6466460-hostinger-svetainiu-kurimo-irankis-paveiksleliu-alt-tekstas\/","default":0},{"locale":"pt-PT","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/br\/support\/6466460-hostinger-criador-de-sites-como-adicionar-texto-alternativo-alt-text-as-suas-imagens\/","default":0},{"locale":"uk-UA","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/ua\/support\/6466460-----\/","default":0}],"include_on_kodee":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3569,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions\/3569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}