Help talk:Navigational image

Is navigational images not a better term?--Patrick 21:13, 12 Aug 2004 (UTC)

That seems reasonable, navigable is the term that appears at the top of my lexicon, but navigational is certainly more common--Odbo255 00:47, 2004 Aug 13 (UTC)

That table for external images doesn't seem to be working. It just displays a link to an image but then links to a different site. Shouldn't it display the actual image?

On Meta it does not work, but the description is general, one can have a copy of this page on another site.--Patrick 11:43, 17 July 2005 (UTC)

Hmm, I have a bunch of content that uses templates containing a single image link, and then pages used [[Target Page|{{Image Template}}]] to get an image that linked to a particular page. This worked well with 1.3.x; however, I've just recently upgraded to 1.5, and all those are broken -- they just give [[Target Page| (image here) ]]. I'm guessing something changed in the way templates are processed? Is there any way to restore the previous processing mechanism? -- Vlad

Utterly, Utterly confusing

All I am trying to do is have an image on one page that links to another page within the same wiki. All your templates, all your text is confusing.

Written by techies for techies. Can someone PLEASE create an idiot's guide? --Rfarrell 16:36, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

Please see User:CharlesC/Template for navigational images on Mediawiki websites. I hope this makes things clearer. - CharlesC 12:29, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

A q&d small practical solution

here is what I have done to my wiki yesterday:

1. I have installed A template "Link-Bild" from german wikipedia; here is a Link to the copy in my Wiki: [1]

2. I have written this template for simple prev/next - Article navigation: [2]

3. Here is an examlpe how it works, as a direkt link into my wiki: (everything in german)[3] - look to begin and end of the Article, where you find the Navi with the two blue arrow-icons (from Crystal)

4. copy it and modify it for your own purpose !

Regards, --GerhardSchwarz 12:36, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

No way other than using superimposing (with templates)?

This is a bit confusing to say the least. Why is there absolutly no way to do this a different way? Shouldnt there be an easy syntax for this? --Simon Moon 03:29, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

Not Confusing -- just *NOT* working

Spent several hours experimenting with the various options offered here and the simple conclusion is: NOTHING does work properly. Suggestion: #REDIRECT [[forget it]]

Not helpful

I tried to find out how to make a simple linked image. Internal image. Internal link.

And I failed and gave up after 10 minutes. Not a helpful page...

None of these methods are very good at all

The redirect method is a horrific kludge.

The methods that require external links are out, unless there is a way to allow 'external' links to ONLY a specified domain.

It is, http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:%24wgAllowExternalImagesFrom 131.111.228.219 20:04, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

The superimposition method also strikes me as horrible.

The imagemap method is definitely the best (and I've found an improvement to it - use the default area). However, I'm finding that it forces a line break afterwards, which I DO NOT WANT! Is there a way to fix this?

Seriously, the best way is going to be for someone to write an extension specifically for this purpose. I'm not sure I know enough php myself though.

But [[Link target|[[Image:Location]]]] ought to work I reckon - is there a gpod reason for it not to? 131.111.228.219 23:24, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

redirect=no

To frame the situation: I'm on Wikipedia, and everything (pages, links, image) is internal. I'm trying the REDIRECT method, and I can see that the image page is a redirect, but whenever I link to it, the redirect doesn't happen (even though there's no redirect=no in the URL. Ideas? JamesLucas 22:45, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

Broken image

Is it just my browser, or is Google's logotype not showing up on this page? 68.172.126.119 23:18, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

version 1.14

in the release notes for version 1.14 it says that there is a new feature that will allow navigational images without using CSS, redirects, external links of image map. Anyone know how to do this? Redekopmark 17:59, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

I used the navimg template

Image links were easy to do with the navimg template;

<div style="position: relative; width: {{{xsize|{{{size|}}}}}}px; height: {{{ysize|{{{size|}}}}}}px; overflow: hidden;"><div style="position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; font-size: 200pt; width: {{{xsize|{{{size|}}}}}}px; height: {{{ysize|{{{size|}}}}}}px; overflow: hidden; line-height: {{{ysize|{{{size|}}}}}}px; z-index: 3;">[[:{{{link|}}}|{{{linktext| }}}]]</div><div style="position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; z-index: 2;">[[Image:{{{image|}}}|{{{xsize|{{{size|}}}}}}px|image page]]</div></div>

For more info, look at Superimposing_a_hyperlink_onto_an_image
Example: {{navimg|xsize=25|ysize=25|image=Wikibooks-logo.png|link=Documentation_Guidelines}}

All attributes are required.

xsize = horizontal

ysize = veritacal

image = internal image file

link = internal link location.

The image will always show up on a newline on the left unless you put the image in a table.

Example of image appearing on the right.

{| border="0" cellspacing="0" align="right" style="text-align: left;" |- | {{navimg|xsize=25|ysize=25|image=Wikibooks-logo.png|link=Documentation_Guidelines}}> |}