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The caption is visible to all readers, and can contain HTML markup, wikilinks and inline citations. An infobox often contains a plain image with the caption as a separate row. A good caption should succinctly identify the subject of the image and establish the image's relevance to the article, without detailing the obvious.
Code is added, to add a caption, to define its size, location on the page and to leave alternative text for the visual impaired . Each code or parameter is separated with a pipe (|). Codes may be in any order – with the exception of the caption, which should be last. Only the filename is required. This must be placed first.
A template for adding a caption to a frameless image. Template parameters [Edit template data] Parameter Description Type Status Image image 1 The image to use. The ''File:'' prefix is optional. Default — String required Image caption and alt text caption 2 The caption to display under or above the image. Also sets the alt text. Default — String required Image width scaling factor upright ...
A caption may be a few words or several sentences. Writing good captions takes effort; along with the lead and section headings, captions are the most commonly read words in an article, so they should be succinct and informative. Not every image needs a caption; some are simply decorative. Relatively few may be genuinely self-explanatory.
If your caption is longer than a few words, you may need to explicitly set the div width. Some browsers adjust the width of the div based on the width of the text, and if there is a large caption, the div may become too large. To solve this problem, simply set the width of the div to the width (in pixels) of the image, like so:
The empty string, if there is an explicitly requested Caption and the image type has a visible caption. The image file name if there is no explicitly requested Alt or Caption. This is never a satisfactory option. It is possible to specify the link title text only for images with no visible caption (as described above).
The attribute was first introduced in the HTML 1.2 draft in 1993 to provide support for text-based browsers. [1] In HTML 4.01, which was released in 1999, the attribute was made to be a requirement for the img and area tags. [2] It is optional for the input tag and the deprecated applet tag. [3]
packed All images aligned by having same height, justified, captions centered under images; packed-overlay Like packed, but caption overlays the image, in a translucent box; packed-hover Like packed-overlay, but caption is only visible on hover (degrades gracefully on screen readers, and falls back to packed-overlay if a touch screen is used)