Editing Incubator escapee wiki:Extended image syntax (section)

===Using the basic syntax===
The most basic example uses the syntax <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline>[[File:Westminstpalace.jpg|Alt text]]</syntaxhighlight>. This does not scale the image or allow text to wrap around it. This is not normally appropriate in an article.

[[File:Westminstpalace.jpg|Alt text]]

This is rendered inline, and the specified text is used as the image's ''alt'' attribute (alternate text for programs which cannot display images, such as [[screen reader]]s) and as the ''title'' attribute (supplementary text, often displayed as a tooltip when the mouse is over the image). See [[Wikipedia:Captions]] for discussion of appropriate caption text. See [[Wikipedia:Alternative text for images]] for discussion of appropriate alt text.

Above, the image of the Thames was put into its own paragraph. This isn't mandatory; images can sit inline in text, as shown below.

<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" style="overflow:auto;">
text text text text text text
[[File:Westminstpalace.jpg|150px|alt=A large clock tower and other buildings line a great river.|The Palace of Westminster]]
text text text text text
[[File:tst.png|100px|alt=Tiny globe|This is a globe.]]
text text text text
</syntaxhighlight>

gives

text text text text text text
[[File:Westminstpalace.jpg|150px|alt=A large clock tower and other buildings line a great river.|The Palace of Westminster]]
text text text text text
[[File:tst.png|100px|alt=Tiny globe|This is a globe.]]
text text text text