Help:Images

This article explains the image syntax when editing the wiki. For a comprehensive guide go to Help:Images - MediaWiki.

Uploading images

Images must be uploaded to LabVIEW Wiki before they can be rendered on a page. The most convenient way is to do it after writing the article. Images that don't exist will appear as red links that point to the upload page of the particular image. When the image is finally available, it will be displayed on the page without further changes.

Rendering images

Images are rendered by using the File: namespace prefix as the target of a wikilink.

To use an image or other file which has been uploaded to the wiki, use:

[[File:Example.jpg]]

If you add a pipe (|) and some text after the filename, the text will be used as alternative text for text-only browsers:

[[File:Example.jpg|alternative text]]

If you don't want to display the image, you can link to the file's description page, by adding a colon:

[[:File:Example.jpg]]

To bypass the description page and link directly to a file, use the Media: pseudo-namespace:

[[Media:Example.jpg]]

You can also make piped links if you want some other text to be used:

[[:File:Example.jpg|link text]]
[[Media:Example.jpg|link text]]

Examples

Description	You type	You get
Embed an image (with alt text)	[[File:Example.jpg|Sunflowers]]
Link to the description page	[[:File:Example.jpg]] [[:File:Example.jpg|Sunflowers]]	File:Example.jpg Sunflowers
Link directly to the file	[[Media:Example.jpg]] [[Media:Example.jpg|Sunflowers]]	Media:Example.jpg Sunflowers
Thumbnail (centered, 100 pixels wide, with caption)	[[File:Example.jpg|center|thumb|100px|Sunflowers]]	Sunflowers

Advanced options

The full syntax for displaying an image is:

[[File:{name}|{options}]]

Where {options} can be zero or more of the following, separated by pipes:

• thumb, thumbnail, or frame: Controls how the image is formatted
• left, right, center, none: Controls the alignment of the image on the page
• {width}px: Resizes the image to the given width in pixels
• {caption text}

The options can be given in any order. 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.

Gallery of images

It's easy to make a gallery of thumbnails with the <gallery> tag. The syntax is:

<gallery>
File:{filename}|{caption}
File:{filename}|{caption}
{...}
</gallery>

Captions are optional, and may contain wiki links or other formatting.

For example,

<gallery>
File:Example.jpg|Item 1
File:Example.jpg|a link to [[Help:Contents]]
File:Example.jpg|70px
File:Example.jpg
File:Example.jpg|''italic caption''
</gallery>

is formatted as:

• 
  Item 1
• 
  a link to Help:Contents
• 
  70px
• 
• 
  italic caption

See also

• Help:Managing files

External links

• Help:Images - MediaWiki