This page explains the image syntax when editing the wiki. You or another user must usually upload an image before you can use it on a page.
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Syntax [ edit ]
The full syntax for displaying an image is:
Where options can be zero or more of the following, separated by pipes:
border, frame, thumb, or frameless: Controls how the image is formatted
left, right, center, none: Controls the alignment of the image within a text
baseline, sub, super, top, text-top, m >[[File:Name. jpg|20px|link=Help:Images]] → 20px.
Note that link cannot be used in conjunction with thumb as thumb is always meant to link to the larger version of the image. In addition, link cannot be used with frame.
alt= : For changing the alternative text (alt=””) of an image (1.14+)
Special cases:
page=1: Displays the specified page when showing a djvu file
The options can be given in any order. If the given options conflict each other, the latter is applied, except for the format options, where the options take the priority in the order of frame, thumb, and frameless and/or border. If a given option does not match any of the other possibilities, it is assumed to be the caption text. Caption text can contain wiki links or other formatting.
Format [ edit ]
The following table shows the effect of all available formats.
Description
You type
You get
no format specified
text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text
border results in a very small gray border
text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text
text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text
text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text
text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text
text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text
frameless, like thumbnail, respect user preferences for image width but without border and no right float
text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text
frameless and border
text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text
internal link
text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text
external link
text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text
no link (external or file page)
text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text
When the height of an image in thumbnail is bigger than its width and you find it too outstanding, you may try the option upright , which will try to adjust its size to more desirable size.
Note that by writing thumb= , you can use a different image for the thumbnail.
Alignment [ edit ]
Note that when using frame or thumb , the default alignment will be right .
Description
You type
You get
no alignment specified, or default alignment
text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text
specify alignment as none
text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text
text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text
text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text
text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text
text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text
text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text
text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text
text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text
Vertical alignment [ edit ]
results in (the text is underlined to show the result more clearly)
text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text
Size and Frame [ edit ]
Among different formats, the effect of the size parameter may be different, as shown below.
When the format is not specified, or only border ed, the size can be both reduced and enlarged.
An image with frame always ignores the size specification.
The size of an image with thumb and frameless can be reduced, but can not be enlarged beyond the original size of the image.
For how it appears when its size is not specified, see Format section above.