graphics displayed with text in a WWW page. Most browers support inline GIF images, and more recent browsers include the JPEG format. Most browsers include an option to disable auto-loading of inline images, so that slower links may display a page quickly; individual inline images can then be loaded as desired. Another option for faster loading of pages, is to include thumbnail graphics to represent large picture files.

These are the graphics contained within a Web document.

Graphics that are contained within a document's textual information. In a Web document, these graphics can either be loaded automatically when the page is accessed or loaded manually by clicking on the image's icon.