Last modified: 2009-01-17 23:37:56 UTC
|link= was implemented to stop people from mis-using <imagemap> to link files to other places beside the file description page. However, <imagemap> allows specifying alt text while using |link= does not. See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=252640097&oldid=252620105 It should be possible to use |alt= when |link= is used.
|alt= works for me, you probably mean tooltips? Example: [[File:Qsicon Exzellent.svg|16px|alt=alt is working|link=Link|actual caption (no title="" gets specified (non-IE tooltip))]] What is missing in source here for me is title="", not alt=""; thus this probably is a dupe of bug 16912 (?)
|alt= works fine when |link= is used. Look at the HTML source of the page -- I've set a test case as the URL for this bug. On browsers that cause HTML alt= to render as a tooltip, the tooltip won't work when wikitext link= is set, because wikitext link= sets a tooltip on the wrapping <a> which overrides the tooltip on the image itself. However, alt= is supposed to be used for alt text, *not* tooltips. It doesn't even work for tooltips in non-IE browsers, as my link shows (see the last case, which doesn't have the custom "Commons" tooltip in Firefox). Therefore, this bug as stated is wrong: alt= on linked images is working as intended. However, the unnamed parameter (which is different from alt= and is really only kept for backwards compatibility because Brion insisted on it, I wanted to use it only for captions) is supposed to set both alt text and tooltip, and on linked images it doesn't. This is a bug, which has already been filed as bug 16912. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 16912 ***
