Pictures

pictures in the text and the infobox, captions and the lightbox

A picture is a file in the wiki's images folder, shown on a page as a markdown image or at the top of the infobox.[1][2] Every picture has a record in PICTURES.toml, and the build stops when a page shows a picture that has none.[1] What the record holds is described on PICTURES.toml, and how a changed picture is caught on Pictures.

Text pictures

A picture in the text is a markdown image, and the site finds it in images by its file name, whatever folder the link names.[1] Its title, in quotes after the address, becomes its caption, or its alt text when it has no title.[3] A picture alone in its paragraph is drawn as a figure of its own.[4]

![The parts of a page](../images/page-anatomy.svg "The parts of a page")

Infobox picture

A page's front matter names a picture for the top of its infobox with image, and its caption with image_caption.[2] Both fields are listed on Front matter.

image = "page-anatomy.svg"
image_caption = "The parts of a page"

Lightbox

Clicking a picture in the text or in the infobox opens it over the page, sized to the window, with its caption beneath.[5] A click or the Escape key closes it again.[5]

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