[TYPO3] how to add alt tag for image?

[Christopher]

Hi,

On 8/1/06, Bing Du <bdu at iastate.edu> wrote:
>
> That's right, it's the title text of the image.  Not only IE shows it,
> but also FF does when moving the mouse over.  Anyway, that's not
> something I'm after.
>
> After looking more, now I doubt if alt text not showing is a bug with
> typo3 3.8.1.
>
> On 3.8, by default, there is no alt text field for images.  Installing
> dmc_image_alttext provides both alt text and title text field for
> images.  And both alt and title show up fine in the page source.
>
> On 3.8.1, by default, there is alt text and title text field for images.
>    However, no matter what you enter there, alt and title in page source
> are blank.  Installing dmc_image_alttext doesn't help.
>
> On 4.0, by default, there are alt text and title text field.  Both of
> them show up fine in page source.
>
> Any other comments?

If I remember right, there was a bug in the TS in 3.8.x. Might be
worth checking the bugtracker and the lists--if it was a TS bug, it
should be painless to fix.


-Christopher