Help:Images

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 for details) and you have to upload a file.

Syntax
The full syntax for displaying an image is: Where options can be zero or more of the following, separated by pipes:
 * ,,  , or  : Controls how the image is formatted
 * ,,  ,  : Controls the alignment of the image on the page
 * ,,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  : Controls the vertical alignment of the image on the page
 * : Resizes the image to the given width in pixels
 * Special cases:
 * : Displays the specified page when showing a djvu file
 * : Allows to link to an arbitrary title, URL or just nowhere (1.14+)
 * : For changing the alternative text 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
The following table shows the effect of all available frame types.

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

Other files
You can link to an external file using the same syntax used for linking to an external web page. Or with different text:

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

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

External Link

 * Wikipedia:Extended image syntax