The invention relates to a method and a device for displaying pictures in a webpage, and belongs to the technical field of networks. The method comprises the following steps of acquiring attribute information, which at least comprises a display area corresponding to a picture and a text of the picture, of each picture when receiving a webpage displaying command; judging whether the text can be completely displayed in the corresponding display area or not; diminishing the typefaces of each text into preset typefaces when the text cannot be completely displayed in the corresponding display area; and displaying the texts with the preset typefaces in the display areas corresponding to the pictures in the webpage. Whether the texts can be completely displayed in the display areas or not is judged, when the texts cannot be completely displayed in the display areas, the typefaces are diminished into the preset typefaces, then the texts are displayed, characters in the texts can be displayed in the display areas as much as possible, the problem that information is missed and is displayed discontinuously due to the fact that a plurality of characters are cut out is solved, and the continuity and the definition of the texts are guaranteed.