Disable Internet Explorer Image Toolbar and retain XHTML validity

abstract

It is possible to disable Internet Explorer feature called "Image Toolbar" with attribute galleryimg="false" in IMG tag. However, document with such attribute will not pass W3 XHTML Validation, because galleryimg it's not defined by XHTML standard.

compatible

Internet Explorer 6

It is possible to disable Internet Explorer Image Toolbar for every site image with following META-tag:

<meta http-equiv="imagetoolbar" content="no">

Adding this META tag to HEAD section does not break XHTML standard. Example:

 
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" 
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html>
	<head>
		<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
		<meta http-equiv="imagetoolbar" content="no" />
		<title>Empty XHTML 1.0 Strict Document</title>
	</head>
	<body>
 
	Visit <a href="http://www.anyexample.com/">AnyExample.com</a>!
 
	</body>
</html>

tested by AnyExample.com on 2006-08-02

Windows XP :: Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0

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