Displaying alt text on hover

  • Resolved ccompton

    (@ccompton)


    8 years, 10 months ago

    Is it possible to display the alt text of an image when hovering over it in the gallery? I didn’t see it in settings, but it seems like basic functionality.

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  • neralex

    (@neralex)

    8 years, 10 months ago

    The reason is, there is simply no alt-attribute on each img-tag, an embarrassing error. This issue breaks also the W3C HTML validation rules. It would be cool, when it will be fixed with the next update. Thanks in advance.

    • This reply was modified 8 years, 10 months ago by neralex.
    neralex

    (@neralex)

    8 years, 10 months ago

    I found a way to fix it.
    open ‘includes/class-foogallery-attachment.php’ and find:

    if ( ! empty( $this->alt ) ) {
    $attr['alt'] = $this->alt;
}

    replace it with:

    # fixed: validation issue - missing alt-argument 
if ( ! empty( $this->alt ) ) {
    $attr['alt'] = $this->alt;
} else {
    $attr['alt'] = '';
}
# added: set title-argument 
if ( ! empty( $this->title ) ) {
    $attr['title'] = $this->title;
}
    • This reply was modified 8 years, 10 months ago by neralex.
    • This reply was modified 8 years, 10 months ago by neralex.
    Thread Starter ccompton

    (@ccompton)

    8 years, 10 months ago

    That worked. Thanks! Definitely agree this needs to be fixed in the next version.

    • This reply was modified 8 years, 10 months ago by ccompton.
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