Customizing the Image Toolbar

The Image Toolbar feature in Microsoft® Internet Explorer 6® allows you to quickly and easily save, e-mail, and print pictures that you find on Web pages. Automatic Image Resizing makes it easier to work with Web pictures on the Internet or your intranet. Learn how to customize the Image Toolbar with this article.

The Image toolbar feature is turned on by default in Internet Explorer 6. As a system administrator or content author, you can use the following two methods to turn off this feature:

• Use the Internet Explorer Customization Wizard to turn off the Image Toolbar in your custom browser package so that when users install the browser, they will not be able to use this feature.
• Use HTML tags to turn off this feature for pictures on Web pages that you create.

You can use the Microsoft Internet Explorer Customization wizard, which comes with the Internet Explorer Administration Kit (IEAK) 6, to customize the appearance and functionality of the browser and its components. You can also preset browsing options and, if you are a corporate administrator, set system policies and restrictions.

Turning Off the Image Toolbar by Using the Customization Wizard

If you do not want your users to have Image toolbar functions, you can turn off this feature by using system policies in the Internet Explorer Customization Wizard. This turns off features per user, so turning off the Image toolbar for one user on a shared computer does not affect other users who log on to the shared computer by using different logon IDs.

The following registry keys control the Image toolbar functionality:

• HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main
  
  When the DWORD is set to a value of 1, the Image toolbar is completely turned off via system policies. Users cannot change this setting.
• HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\Enable_Image_Toolbar_Hovering
  
  Depending on whether the Image toolbar is turned on or off, this registry key is set to a value of "yes" or "no."
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\AdvancedOptions\MULTIMEDIA\MYPICS\

The following table identifies the registry key values that control the Image Toolbar functions.

Turning Off the Image Toolbar by Using HTML Tags

As a content author, you can easily turn off Image Toolbar functions for an individual picture or all pictures on a Web page. By using certain HTML syntax, you can turn off only elements that use the <img> tag; it does not affect other graphics tags, such as <embed> or <object>, or the file type.

If you want to turn off Image Toolbar functions for individual pictures on a Web page, use the following <img> syntax for the picture:

<img border="0" src="filename" galleryimg="no">
<img border="0" src="filename" galleryimg="false">

If you want to turn off Image Toolbar functions for all pictures on a Web page, add the following <meta> syntax to your Web page:

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

If you turn off Image Toolbar functions for all pictures on a Web page, you can enable them for individual pictures by setting the galleryimg attribute to "yes" or "true", using the following <img> syntax:

<img border="0" src="filename" galleryimg="yes">
<img border="0" src="filename" galleryimg="true">

NOTE If you use the galleryimg="yes" attribute and you also use image mapping (usemap or ismap), the galleryimg="yes" attribute overrides the mapping attribute and the menu is turned on.