Wikipedia:Gallery tag

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As of version 1.4, MediaWiki supports making image galleries. Although this is an easy way of displaying a large number of images, it does not currently support alt text, needed for accessibility by the visually impaired and other readers who cannot see the images. To create a gallery with alt text, you can use {{Gallery}} instead.

[edit] Syntax

The basic syntax is:

<gallery>
File:Wiki.png
File:Wiki.png|Captioned
File:Wiki.png
File:Wiki.png|[[Help:Contents/Links|Links]] can be put in captions.
File:Wiki.png
File:Wiki.png|Full [[MediaWiki]]<br />[[syntax]] may now be used…
</gallery>

Which produces:

The extended syntax is (see gallery tag help and below for full list of parameters):

<gallery caption="Sample gallery" widths="180px" heights="120px" perrow="3">
File:Wiki.png|Caption text.
[...]
</gallery>
  • Images are separated by new lines.
  • Captions are optional.
  • Notice that there are no brackets except for links within captions.
  • A common mistake is to forget the closing </gallery> tag.
  • The default width and height is 120px.
  • If perrow= is omitted, the width is fluid: one row comprises as many images as will fit across the available width. Prior to MediaWiki 1.17, the default was 4.

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