Help:Images

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This page explains the image syntax when editing the wiki. Before using images in your page, your wiki must have file uploads enabled (see the technical manual for details) and you have to upload a file.

Description	You type	You get
Embed image (with alt text)	`[[Image:Example.jpg\|Sunflowers]]`
Link to description page	`[[:Image:Example.jpg]]` `[[:Image:Example.jpg\|Sunflowers]]`	Image:Example.jpg Sunflowers
Link directly to file	`[[Media:Example.jpg]]` `[[Media:Example.jpg\|Sunflowers]]`	Media:Example.jpg Sunflowers
Thumbnail (centered, 100 pixels wide, with caption)	`[[Image:Example.jpg\|center\|thumb\|100px\|Sunflowers]]`	Sunflowers
Border (100 pixels) Results in a very small gray border	`[[Image:Example-white-bg.jpg\|border\|100px]]`
Frameless Like thumbnail, respect user preferences for image width but without border and no right float.	`[[Image:Example.jpg\|frameless]]`

Syntax[edit | edit source]

The full syntax for displaying an image is:

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

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

thumb, thumbnail, frame, or frameless: Controls how the image is formatted
left, right, center, none: Controls the alignment of the image on the page
baseline, sub, super, top, text-top, middle, bottom, text-bottom: Controls the vertical alignment of the image on the page
{width}px: Resizes the image to the given width in pixels
Special cases:
- page=1: Displays the specified page when showing a djvu file
link={destination}: Allows to link to an arbitrary title, URL or just nowhere (1.14+)
alt={alternative text}: For changing the alternative text (alt="") of an image (1.14+)

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.

Frame[edit | edit source]

The following table shows the effect of all available frame types.

Help:Images/frame Help:Images/frame Help:Images/frame Help:Images/frame

You type

You get

Size and Frame[edit | edit source]

Among different frame type, the effect of the size parameter may be different, as shown below.

Help:Images/size Help:Images/size Help:Images/size Help:Images/size

Frame

You get

Border and Frame[edit | edit source]

Help:Images/border Help:Images/border Help:Images/border Help:Images/border

Frame

You get

Alignment[edit | edit source]

[[Image:Wiki.png|50px]] (no alignment specified, or default alignment) text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text

[[Image:Wiki.png|50px|none]] (specify alignment as none) none none none none none none none none none none

none none none none none none none none none none

[[Image:Wiki.png|50px|center]] center center center center center center center

center center center center center center center

[[Image:Wiki.png|50px|left]] left left left left left left left left left left

left left left left left left left left left left left left left left left left left left left left

[[Image:Wiki.png|50px|right]] right right right right right right right right

right right right right right right right right right right right right right right right right right right

Other files[edit | edit source]

You can link to an external file using the same syntax used for linking to an external web page.

[http://url.for/some/image.png]

Or with different text:

[http://url.for/some/image.png link text here]

If it is enabled on your wiki (see Manual:$wgAllowExternalImages), you can also embed external images. To do that, simply insert the image's url:

http://url.for/some/image.png

Gallery of images[edit | edit source]

It's easy to make a gallery of thumbnails only, not other images, with the <gallery> tag. The syntax is:

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

Note that the image code is not enclosed in brackets when enclosed in gallery tags.
Captions are optional, and may contain wiki links or other formatting.

for example:

<gallery>
Image:Example.jpg|Item 1
Image:Example.jpg|a link to [[Help:Contents]]
Image:Example.jpg
Image:Example.jpg
Image:Example.jpg|''italic caption''
Image:Example.jpg|on page "{{PAGENAME}}"
</gallery>

is formatted as:

Item 1
a link to Help:Contents
italic caption
on page "Images"

Parameters[edit | edit source]

The gallery tag itself takes several additional parameters:

<gallery {parameters}> {images} </gallery>

caption={caption}: sets a caption on the gallery.
widths={width}px: sets the widths of the images.
heights={heights}px: sets the (max) heights of the images.
perrow={integer}: sets the number of images per row.

Modes[edit | edit source]

Gallery modes will alter the characteristics of the gallery display.

traditional: is the original gallery type used by MediaWiki.
nolines: is similar to traditional, but with no border lines.
packed: causes images to have the same height but different widths, with little space between the images. The rows in this responsive mode organize themselves according to the width of the screen.
packed-overlay: shows the caption overlaid on the image, in a semi-transparent white box.
packed-hover: is similar to packed-overlay, but with the caption and box only showing up on hover.
slideshow: creates a slideshow of the images.