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[resolved] alt text trouble (3 posts)

  1. avecchioni
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    [Wordpress 2.51/ Cutline-3 Column Split.] I'm using Ad Rotator Plugin to rotate my header images each time a visitor navigates to
    a new page/post. It works beautifully. (See home page Here.) The only
    problem is that the images do not have alt_text.

    The code I'm using to rotate the images is this:

    <div id="header_img">
    		<img src="http://spaghettiboxkids.com/blog/wp-content/themes/cutline-3-column-split-11/images/header_<?php echo(rand(1,9)); ?>.jpg"
    width="970" height="140" alt="image_alt_text" />
    	</div>

    The images are located in my theme's image folder. They're named header_1.jpg, header_2.jpg, etc, all the way to header_9.jpg. (I uploaded them using ftp client server.)

    My question is, how can I give the images alt_text? If these images were in a post or sidebar, I would use ...a href...to name them and put the alt_text there. But the rotator code above doesn't do that, and I'm not sure how to handle the code in order to insert alt_text, or if there's some other way to go about it?

  2. Samuel B
    moderator
    Posted 3 years ago #

    The correct syntax would be:

    <img alt="image_alt_text" src="http://spaghettiboxkids.com/blog/wp-content/themes/cutline-3-column-split-11/images/header_<?php echo(rand(1,9)); ?>.jpg"
    width="970" height="140" />

    I don't know how much difference that will make.

  3. avecchioni
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    Thanks, that did the trick! (In Firefox I verified alt_text by going to Tools-Page Info-Media, then clicking on the address of the specific image and viewing information).

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