Editing MycoTaxa:Village pump (technical)/Archive 1 (section)

== Pic code not working ==

I tried putting my first image into an article today - a pic of USS Card into the [[Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding]] page. Unfortunately the code won't do what it's supposed to. It seems like it will only obey two commands but not three. Like for example, at the moment I've got it where I want it and the size I want, but it won't display the caption. If I get it to display the caption, I lose the size or the location parameter. 

I'm using IE 7, don't know if that makes any difference. But the pics on all the ''other'' pages display fine, so why not this one? [[User:Gatoclass|Gatoclass]] 16:03, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

:I think you were looking for the 'thumb' parameter? See [[Help:Images]] on how to display images. <span style="font-family: verdana;"> — [[User:Edokter|<span style="color: #008;">'''''E''dokter'''</span>]] • [[User_talk:Edokter|<span style="color: #080;">Talk</span>]] • </span> 17:50, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

::No, I'm not looking for thumb. Thumbs are too small. I want to have a 350px image on the right hand side, bordered with a caption. Everyone else seems to manage this without a problem, but for some reason the code won't work for me. I can't see that I'm doing anything different from anyone else, so it's really got me bamboozled. [[User:Gatoclass|Gatoclass]] 17:54, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

:::Okay, I see you've edited it. Yes, that's what I wanted, thanks! However, the code is still not behaving the way it's described in the help pages, what if I want to put an image like this on the left instead of the right? [[User:Gatoclass|Gatoclass]] 17:59, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

::::Then simply add the 'left' parameter (|350px|thumb|left|). Thumb images default to the right. <span style="font-family: verdana;"> — [[User:Edokter|<span style="color: #008;">'''''E''dokter'''</span>]] • [[User_talk:Edokter|<span style="color: #080;">Talk</span>]] • </span> 18:01, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

Easy when you know how! Thanks so much Edokter, I was getting very annoyed about this problem. It isn't clear at all from the help pages that you need to specify "thumb" ''as well as'' a pixel size, I assumed you only needed the one and that's what had me baffled. [[User:Gatoclass|Gatoclass]] 18:14, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
:Well, the "thumb" feature is completely optional, as is the size. The help pages could probably be a bit clearer on that, though. [[User:EVula|EVula]] <span style="color: #999;">// [[User talk:EVula|talk]] // [[User:EVula/admin|<span style="color: #366;">&#9775;</span>]] //</span> 20:55, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

::The picture didn't display properly until the "thumb" parameter was included. So I don't think it's "optional" at all. Apparently it is a required field if you want to reduce the size of an image. [[User:Gatoclass|Gatoclass]] 04:01, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

:::Not at all. You can always specify the size. The 'thumb' option only creates a border which displays the caption. But without a given size, thumb defaults to 150px. <span style="font-family: verdana;"> — [[User:Edokter|<span style="color: #008;">'''''E''dokter'''</span>]] • [[User_talk:Edokter|<span style="color: #080;">Talk</span>]] • </span> 14:09, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

::::Oh, okay, so you need the thumb in order to get the border and caption. That makes sense because I could previously get the reduced image but couldn't get it along with the caption, it was either one or the other.

::::Thanks once again for the clarification, Edokter, I think I'm finally up with the details now :) I think I will have to go and re-read the image pages though, because I don't recall reading any of these details and if they're not there then it's about time someone added them. [[User:Gatoclass|Gatoclass]] 15:37, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

::::: I think if you don't use "thumb" the caption text becomes alt text which is only visible when you put the mouse pointer over the image (without clicking on the image).  ([[User:SEWilco|SEWilco]] 15:58, 22 October 2007 (UTC))

Yeah, I think you're right. [[User:Gatoclass|Gatoclass]] 18:06, 22 October 2007 (UTC)