Template talk:Plain image with caption
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Would it be possible to add an option of using the normal body-text style for the caption? I wanted to use this template for a chemical formula, but <small> tags, which I used for optical-chirality symbols that are conventionally set in SMALL CAPS, had no effect, presumably because a small style was already in effect. —Odysseus1479 (talk) 23:26, 11 November 2010 (UTC)
What is the purpose of this template?
This is a picture of the James Webb Space Telescope.
Hi, @Kelvinsong: and @Waldir:. I don't understand the purpose here.
What's the difference between
[[File:James Webb Space Telescope Mirror37.jpg|220px|This is a picture of the [[James Webb Space Telescope]].]]
and
{{plain image with caption|James Webb Space Telescope Mirror37.jpg|This is a picture of the [[James Webb Space Telescope]].|220|right|bottom|triangle|rgba(0,110,255,1)}}
except for the coloured triangle-arrow, and the lack/presence of borders? Please explain! Thanks. –Quiddity (talk) 19:58, 17 June 2013 (UTC)
- The telescope image is probably a bad example. The template isn't meant for photographs (though I think it works quite well for them). Rather, it was built for SVG diagrams and stuff with a white or transparent background where a thumbnail border and gray rectangle becomes unnecessary and distracting, and ugly. Before, the solution was to just drop the |thumb parameter, like at Symmetry (though someone has gone and added a bunch of framed images). However you couldn't add any captions. This template is essentially a regular |thumb-less image plus a caption. See Chloroplast#Structure for examples of correct template use.
- As for the triangle you ask? That's an optional addon—it's useful if you have two borderless images stacked up, and it helps readers tell which image each caption is for. —Kelvinsong (talk) 20:41, 17 June 2013 (UTC)
- Oh, transparent backgrounds on diagrams. That makes sense. Hmmmm... Ok, I'll have to think about and investigate that a bit more.
- It seems like the kind of thing we should create a fix for, in the normal thumbnail code, so that all Wikis (from the hundreds of Wikimedia ones, to all the other sites using Mediawiki) will be able to use the option.
- Thanks for the explanation :) –Quiddity (talk) 20:27, 17 June 2013 (UTC)
- Well that's what templates are for. :) I for one would like to see an easier way to center stuff like tables in MW code.
- BTW, there's a shortcut to the template, just type {{plain image|...}}. A lot of the code in the template is just idiotproofing, so you can write "File:xxx.png" or just "xxx.png", etc.—Kelvinsong (talk) 20:41, 17 June 2013 (UTC)