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#1 Yesterday 22:48:31

mwr

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article_image alt

Is there an easy way to add alt to article_image? I thought <txp:article_image alt=“icon for <txp:title />” /> might work.

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#2 Today 10:11:50

jakob

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Re: article_image alt

As you’ve discovered, alt isn’t an attribute of the article_image tag. You have two options:

You can use the trim and replace tags to “search and replace” the tag string:

<txp:article_image trim='/alt="(.+?)"/' replace='alt="Icon for <txp:title />"' />

The weird-looking use of single quotes for the attributes here is because the double quote is part of the search and replace values (and also because using a tag inside an attribute requires single quotes).

Or you can do:

<txp:if_article_image>
    <txp:images>
        <img src="<txp:image_url />" alt="Icon for <txp:title />">
    </txp:images>
</txp:if_article_image>

which gives you greater flexibility. You can add extra image attributes here if you like using the image_info tag. txp:images tries to be context aware so will use the article image if it’s available. It’s wise to wrap this tag in if_article_image because if no article image is specified it will output all the last ten images if I recall correctly.

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