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Help:Images
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Embed image (with alt text) |
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Link to description page |
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Link directly to file |
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Thumbnail (centered, 100 pixels wide, with caption) |
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Error creating thumbnail: File missing |
Border (100 pixels) Results in a very small gray border |
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Error creating thumbnail: File missing
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Frameless Like thumbnail, respect user preferences for image width but without border and no right float. |
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Uploaded files
To use an image or other file which has been uploaded to the wiki, use:
[[Image:Onion.png]]
If you add a pipe (|) and some text after the filename, the text will be used as alternative text for text-only browsers:
[[Image:Onion.png|alternative text]]
If you don't want to display the image, you can link to the file's description page, by adding a colon:
[[:Image:Onion.png]]
To bypass the description page and link directly to a file , use the "Media" pseudo-namespace:
[[Media:Onion.png]]
You can also make piped links if you want some other text to be used:
[[:Image:Onion.png|link text]]
[[Media:Onion.png|link text]]
Advanced options
The full syntax for displaying an image is:
[[Image:{name}|{options}]]
Where options can be zero or more of the following, separated by pipes:
thumb
,thumbnail
, orframe
: Controls how the image is formattedleft
,right
,center
,none
: Controls the alignment of the image on the page{width}px
: Resizes the image to the given width in pixels{caption text}
The options can be given in any order. If a given option does not match any of the other possibilities, it is assumed to be the caption text. Caption text can contain wiki links or other formatting.
Gallery of images
It's easy to make a gallery of thumbnails with the <gallery>
tag. The syntax is:
<gallery> Image:{filename}|{caption} Image:{filename}|{caption} {...} </gallery>
Captions are optional, and may contain wiki links or other formatting.
for example:
<gallery> Image:Onion.png|Item 1 Image:Onion.png|a link to [[Help:Contents]] Image:Onion.png Image:Onion.png Image:Onion.png|''italic caption'' </gallery>
is formatted as:
- Error creating thumbnail: File missing
Item 1
- Error creating thumbnail: File missing
a link to Help:Contents
- Error creating thumbnail: File missing
- Error creating thumbnail: File missing
- Error creating thumbnail: File missing
italic caption