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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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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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Re: article_image alt
It should not be difficult to add alt attribute to <txp:article_image /> if needed. Needed?
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etc wrote #342945:
It should not be difficult to add
altattribute to<txp:article_image />if needed. Needed?
Does it not output the alt associated with the image asset already, if it’s set? Pretty sure it does. Isn’t that the correct place to assign the alt text?
If this is for those instances where people want to override it manually, or to include tags, that’s cool. I’m all for that. But shouldn’t we extend the alt override ability to the image/thumbnail tag too? Or allow the alt/caption to somehow by escape-able so you could put Icon for <txp:title /> into the alt field and have it parsed on display, if you choose an appropriate escape value?
EDIT: Mind you, that’s a lot of extra work to add it to each image so, yeah, being able to override the alt at the tag level might be a very neat feature.
btw, I added this kind of functionlity in my img_alt plugin. So if we don’t implement something similar in core, there’s a path to do it for mwr.
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Re: article_image alt
Thanks for the tips. I think I’ll leave well enough alone. I’ve got 444 icons (at last count) and it’s not that crucial that they have an alt :)
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