Is there a way to have description NOT also appear in alt text?

« on: May 05, 2008, 02:59:27 pm »

jsperl

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Is there a way to have description NOT also appear in alt text?

But still appear on the image display page? Here is an example of one of mine:

http://76.12.14.108/index.php/component/option,com_rsgallery2/Itemid,88/id,200/page,inline/

The problem is that when hovering over the image or thumbnails you get a really ugly scene with the alt text pop-ups showing all the content in all the raw html glory.

The best of both worlds would be the ability to specify the alt text separately, as I don't really want to leave those blank either. Any way to do that?

eta: I'm using 1.14.3 Alpha - SVN 649


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« on: May 05, 2008, 03:38:47 pm »

jsperl

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Re: Is there a way to have description NOT also appear in alt text?

Ok...I found a solution.

As I thought about it more, what I really wanted was not so much a way to enter the alt text separately (which would mean more manual labor), but I wanted the alt text to use my already existing titles rather that my descriptions. Which as it turns out is very simple...here is how, for anyone else that might be interested:

For the thumbs:

1. Open thumbs_table.php (or thumbs_float.php depending on which one you're using).

2. Look for

<img src="<?php echo $thumb->url();?>" alt="<?php echo htmlspecialchars(stripslashes($item->descr), ENT_QUOTES); ?>"/>

Change $item->descr to $item->title

For the main image box:

1. Open display.class.php

2. Look for

$this->_showImageBox( $item->name, $item->title ); In this case you'll see this line in 3 clauses corresponding to the choice of no pop-up, normal pop-ups, or lightbox. Edit all 3 or just the one that applies to your choice.

3. Again, change $item->descr to $item->title

Voila! Nice, clean alt text pop-ups!