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This scrolling list template creates a scroll-box within a page that allows for large content to be limited to a given number of pixels on the page. Examples: Photo gallery: La Spezia (on it.wiki) Photo gallery: Pertini (same as above) To edit the size of captions, you may use the following code:
Examples of horizontal and vertical scrollbars around a text box Examples of vertical scrollbar at right end of Wikipedia home page. A scrollbar is an interaction technique or widget in which continuous text, pictures, or any other content can be scrolled in a predetermined direction (up, down, left, or right) on a computer display, window, or viewport so that all of the content can be viewed ...
See the 2003 version of Floppy disk for an example. Markup for images is quite complicated. This may be improved in the future: see meta:image pages. Here are some examples of typical markup ("image" for an image in the page, "media" for just a link):
Lead images should usually be no larger than |upright=1.35. Avoid article text referring to images as being to the left, right, above or below, because image placement varies with platform (especially mobile platforms) and screen size, and is meaningless to people using screen readers; instead, use captions to identify images.
The image acts as a hypertext link to the specified page. Do not enclose the page name in square brackets. If Page is a URL, the image acts as an external link; otherwise it links to the named Wikipedia page. Image maps offer more possibilities. [[File:Example.png| link=Name of page |alt=Example alt text]]
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. Float the image on the right unless overridden with the location attribute.
Image credits: historycoolkids #6. A Lego letter to parents from 1974. Here's the letter transcribed: "To Parents The urge to create is equally strong in all children.
(Most references to an image's "size" really mean its width.) Except with very good reason, a fixed width in pixels (e.g. 17px) should not be specified, because it ignores the user's base width setting. Thus upright=scaling factor is preferred when it is desired to present an image at other than the default width.