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Alt Text: How to?

Posted: Thu May 30, 2013 3:05 am
by Rommel
How do I add alternative text to my images? It seems this option/feature is not available or maybe I'm not looking hard enough.

Re: Alt Text: How to?

Posted: Thu May 30, 2013 8:31 am
by giosafat
Hi Rommel,
I think the only way to add an "alt tex"t is going in "special styles" and write it as "html additional attributes", e.g. "alt="my alt text".

Re: Alt Text: How to?

Posted: Thu May 30, 2013 5:40 pm
by reuterr
Hi,
I'm not sure, if I understand your reasons - if just a simple renaming of the object ID or using the tooltip field to display some additional text isn't enough and you expect some text only after clicking on the image you can use under "Misc" / "Special Styles" / "additional html.attributes" this:
onclick="javascript:alert('hi')" and replace the "hi" with your text. The only limit there would be, no apostrophes allowed.

By using both possibilities you could - for example - use the tooltip first for something like this: "to learn more click on image"
and in the additional html field more explanations concerning the picture.
Cheers,
Roland

Re: Alt Text: How to?

Posted: Thu May 30, 2013 10:15 pm
by Rommel
Giorgio, thank you for quickly pointing that one. :D

Roland, my reason is basically only for SEO. Spiders will easily find or index an image especially if it has alternative text attached to it.

@ Giorgio, have you already found a workaround to resize an image proportionally? I'm having troubles resizing pictures once inside DFM.

Re: Alt Text: How to?

Posted: Thu May 30, 2013 11:54 pm
by giosafat
No, Rommel, unfortunately I haven't found a workaround to resize an image proportionally :cry:

Re: Alt Text: How to?

Posted: Fri May 31, 2013 5:15 am
by Rommel
I hope that Jorg will address this issue/add this option on his next update as it will save a lot of time. Jumping from a graphic editor/image resizer to dfm and back and forth in order to resize images proportionally is a little bit tedious I suppose.