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This template creates a box with two to ten images arranged vertically or horizontally with captions for the entire box and each image. Template parameters [Edit template data] This template has custom formatting. Parameter Description Type Status Alignment align Sets text-wrapping around image box, where "none" places the box on the left edge with no text-wrapping, "center" places the box at ...
Once you have made the template—for example Template:foo—you can add {{foo}} to the pages that you want to use it on. Every page using this template uses the same boilerplate text each time that a user visits it. When the template is updated, all pages containing the template tag are automatically updated.
Place the image on the left side of the page. The article text that follows the image flows around the image, but there may be formatting issues with lists and indented text (see § Interaction between left-floating images and lists). center Place the image in the center of the page. The article text that follows the image is placed below the ...
The <math> tag is best for the complex formula on its own line in an image format. If you use this tag to put a formula in the line with text, put it in the {} template. The {} template uses HTML, and will size-match a serif font, and will also prevent line-wrap.
An image that would otherwise overwhelm the text space available within a 1024×768 window should generally be formatted as described in relevant formatting guidelines (e.g. WP:IMAGESIZE, MOS:IMGSIZE, Help:Pictures § Panoramas). Try to harmonize the sizes of images on a given page in order to maintain visual coherence.
In such cases, text annotations can be added to an image with the templates Template:Annotated image or Template:Annotated image 4. These templates allow wikitext (e.g., regular text, wikilinks, and reference templates) to be included on the image itself.
A gallery displays several pictures in an array or similar layout. Galleries can display images formed into rows and columns by use of the <gallery>...</gallery> parser (conversion of Wikitext to HTML) tag. Be aware that different screen size and browsers may affect accessibility for some readers.
Note: This method is a hack which does not work with all Wikipedia skins. For example, users of the Classic skin will have the links at the top of the page covered up by the title. Alternate title headers are headers that cover up the default header at the top of a page. The default title header has the name of the page in big bold letters.