[#16950] - Intro Image Links And Title Tags?
- Closed
- 9 Sep 2017
- Medium
- Build: 3.7.2
- # 16950
Steps to reproduce the issue
Amazed that by default article intro images do not have links attached to their corresponding articles OR a field for a title tag on the bag end for adding the link.
It would be good for this to be available by default. It's also proven that the engagement rate for clicking images is much higher than headings/text in general.
Is it possible this will get added and does anyone have the code to add this manually? so far i have
src="<?php echo htmlspecialchars($images->image_intro); ?>"
alt="<?php echo htmlspecialchars($images->image_intro_alt); ?>"/>
Expected result
Article image linked to main article and title tag to be replicated from image alt tag
Actual result
System information (as much as possible)
Additional comments
joomla-cms-bot
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| Status | New | ⇒ | Closed |
| Closed_Date | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 | ⇒ | 2017-07-03 14:24:56 |
| Closed_By | ⇒ | brianteeman |
| Status | Closed | ⇒ | New |
| Closed_Date | 2017-07-03 14:24:56 | ⇒ | |
| Closed_By | brianteeman | ⇒ |
Hi Brian, not just the blog-item.php page but general articles, basically anything with the ability to add an article intro image. Looking for overrides now
as for your comment about the title tag - it does exist under the image its called caption
Hi Brian, a caption and a title are two different things. I would expect the title attribute to be displayed over a link when the user hovers over it. A caption is basically a description of an image. They are two different things. I do not want to show a caption for the image I simply want to add a title attribute to the anchor link attached to the image :)
franz-wohlkoenig
- | Status | New | ⇒ | Discussion |
| Category | ⇒ | com_content |
Hi Brian, not just the blog-item.php page but general articles, basically anything with the ability to add an article intro image. Looking for overrides now
Sorry I dont follow you - the intro image is only displayed on a blog-item page and not on any other page and the code you refer to in your first post is already present
| Status | Discussion | ⇒ | Information Required |
Clozed
| Status | Information Required | ⇒ | Closed |
| Closed_Date | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 | ⇒ | 2017-09-09 13:13:07 |
| Closed_By | ⇒ | brianteeman |
are you talking about the image on a blog category page?
If so then Joomla does by default add a link to the full article on the image. If you dont have that then your template is probably overriding the default layout for a blog page and not adding the code for the link