Image Descriptions

[chaos]

It would be nice to have a way to add captions under images. These images would not be part of a gallery - just thumbnails that are in the page content.
Surprised that there is not a plugin that exists to do this (unless I have missed it somewhere!)

[Connie]

as it is now, images are entered by plain html and there is no html for captions... you need input for the caption
if you use the HTML-editor, this also creates plain html code
but maybe a CKEDITPOR Plugin? Check here: http://ckeditor.com/blog/CKEditor-Add-Ons-Forum

you could create a special page with the special pages plugin for example, and add an input field for image caption there...

[chaos]

as it is now, images are entered by plain html and there is no html for captions... you need input for the caption
if you use the HTML-editor, this also creates plain html code
but maybe a CKEDITPOR Plugin? Check here: http://ckeditor.com/blog/CKEditor-Add-Ons-Forum

you could create a special page with the special pages plugin for example, and add an input field for image caption there...

Thanks Connie for the advice. The Special Pages plugin I think would be the easier way to go. Thanks again.

[shawn_a]

It might be neat to have a meta plugin to add meta information to uploads.

[Timbow]

Thanks Connie for the advice. The Special Pages plugin I think would be the easier way to go. Thanks again.

Or ask that bloke Jason if his 'Simple Input Tabs' would do the job and how to set it up.

[jason.dixon.email]

Sneaking in after a PM from chaos.

I guess my question is, Chaos, what you are wanting when it comes to the layout of your page? Do you just want a caption any time an image pops up, or a dedicated area for images and captions? Can you not simply place an image via the editor then write the text below?

Simple Input Tabs lets you break up the content on the page into different locations. For the adding of content it still uses all the default editor functions.

If you have a special area you're wanting images to be placed, you could style a particular area of the site (like a grey box) then use this plugin to edit content in that area, but that would require an image (or something) to be in the same location every time that pages template is used.

[chaos]

Can you not simply place an image via the editor then write the text below?

Hi Jason
Some pages will have images with captions, with content text flowing around them. The positioning of the images will differ from page to page. Some on the left, others on the right. Other pages will have no images at all.
I have positioned images within the content area with images aligned left in order for the text to flow around the picture and caption. I have not found any easy way, other than having to use tables in order to achieve this.
Thanks for your assistance.

[shawn_a]

you should be using css for this.

[jason.dixon.email]

Thanks for your assistance.

No problem.

Try putting <span> tags around your image and text (in the source view of the editor).

ie:

Code:

<span> <img src="image_here.jpg" ><br>My caption. </span>

Or if that doesn't work... might need to put <span style="display:inline-block"> or something.

[datiswous]

Try putting <span> tags around your image and text (in the source view of the editor).

ie:

Code:

<span> <img src="image_here.jpg" ><br>My caption. </span>

Or if that doesn't work... might need to put <span style="display:inline-block"> or something.

Thanks