-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Anchored <img> linked to image source file? Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 10:23:07 -0700 From: Henry Pfeil <hpfeil@xxxxxxxxxx> Reply-To: hpfeil@xxxxxxxxxx Organization: Perbalutational Psnarficon Interfaces, Ltd To: webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Just wondering why decorative icons/buttons are wrapped inside an anchor tag. For example: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/18/Schedule, <div style="float: left; margin-left: -40px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Note.png" class="image"><img alt="Note.png" src="/w/uploads/thumb/c/cc/Note.png/35px-Note.png" width="35" height="35" /></a></div> When someone clicks on the decorative icon, they go to the image file, in this example, https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/File:Note.png. That is unexpected behavior and probably not what you want. <img> tags do not need an anchor unless the image is part of the link to someplace you want folks to go. According to w3.org, you may want to place those <img> definitions in a style.css. (http://www.w3.org/wiki/HTML/Elements/img) Since you don't intend File:Note.png to be a hyperlink, simply remove the anchor tag wrapping it. <img alt="Note.png" src="/w/uploads/thumb/c/cc/Note.png/35px-Note.png" width="35" height="35"> Note the closing bracket is not '/>' but just '>'. I think that syntax comes from the MediaWiki tools used to create the page. Sorry to bother you, I should go pester the folks at MidaWiki? http://validator.w3.org/ complains about other issues which are of no concern to me. I was simply surprised when I ended up on a wiki page dedicated to a decorative button. -- Henry Pfeil Principal Support Systems Analyst [retired] University of Arizona -- websites mailing list websites@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/websites -- websites mailing list websites@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/websites
