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<center>[[Image:NAME|Alt text]]<br>''Caption''</center> 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.
Show a caption if specified. Float the image on the right unless overridden with the location attribute. With an operand, e.g. thumb=Example.png, the operand names an image that is used as the thumbnail, ignoring any size specification. frame Preserve the original image size, and put a box around the image. Show any caption below the image.
To upload an image, use the Wikipedia:File upload wizard. When uploading an image, you have to: make sure the image is published under a free copyright license; clearly label the origin and the copyright license of the image. Before uploading images, read the image use policy. Most images on the Internet are copyrighted.
CSS image replacement is a Web design technique that uses Cascading Style Sheets to replace text on a Web page with an image containing that text. It is intended to keep the page accessible to users of screen readers, text-only web browsers, or other browsers where support for images or style sheets is either disabled or nonexistent, while allowing the image to differ between styles.
Finally, you can link to one image from a thumbnail's small double-rectangle icon , but display another image using "|thumb=Displayed image name". This is intended for the rare cases when the Wikipedia software that reduces images to thumbnails does a poor job, and you want to provide your own thumbnail.
The CSS selectors, expressed in terms of elements, classes and id's, relevant for the style of the page body include the following. As far as possible, examples are given, which show the result for the current style settings: : link — links — example: Help:Index ; default: help:index (See a vs :link): link: link: link: visited: link ...
Images, audio and video files must be uploaded into Wikipedia using the "Upload file" link on the left-hand navigation bar. Only logged in users can upload files. Once a file is uploaded, other pages can include or link to the file. Uploaded files are given the "File:" prefix by the system, and each one has an image description page.
To upload images to Commons you can use the Commons Upload Wizard tool, which will guide you through the process. There is an important caveat: Commons accepts only freely licensed images . This means that you cannot upload most images found on the internet, as the vast majority of them are not free.