Is there a way to add a caption to image, specifically along the bottom? I would like to be able to restrict the amount of text added to the caption then. I see how to add text, but this seems difficult to move around and place for our users.

Thanks,

 

Yes. In the insert_image dialog, you can add the caption in the "Alternative Text" field.

 

>>I would like to be able to restrict the amount of text added to the caption then

 

It's possible.

 

Please open InsertImage.Frame.aspx file and found the following code:

 

<input type="text" id="AlternateText" size="22" NAME="AlternateText">

 

Please change it to:

 

<input type="text" id="AlternateText" maxlength="20" size="22" NAME="AlternateText">

 

 

 

I'm trying to add captions to my images as well, but your suggestion above isn't working.  It puts the text in the ALT field but what I really need to do is something like this:

 

 

Any ideas on how I might do that?  The photo and caption are generally left- or right-aligned within the body of the article that we're going to be building in CE.  The rest of the text will flow around the photo and caption.

jfarr,

We're trying to setup a community journalism initiative where people with little or no web skills could submit simple articles to us.   These articles might contain one or more photos with captions and credits beneath them, and these have to conform to our style (we're a newspaper and my bosses are very particular about style).  Unfortunately, setting up a DIV in CE may be more than we can expect these people to be able to do.

 

I suppose our only option left is:

 

1. Let them insert an image and have them fill in the longDesc field via the image dialog

2. After the article is saved, parse the text to find the image and place the caption as needed.

 

Of course, it looks like templates might let us do this as well but I'm having some difficulty figuring them out.

jfarr,