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title: Review of the Image Caption Module
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date: 2010-08-20
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excerpt: My review of Drupal’s Image Caption module.
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tags:
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- drupal
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- drupal-6
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- drupal-planet
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- image-caption
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- imagefield
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---
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Up until as recent as last week, whenever I added an image into one of my Blog
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posts, I was manually adding the caption below each image and styling it
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accordingly. That was until I installed the
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[Image Caption](http://drupal.org/project/image_caption) module.
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The Image Caption module uses jQuery to dynamically add captions to images. Here
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is a walkthrough of the process that I followed to install and configure the
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module. As always, I used Drush to download and enable the module, then visited
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the Image Caption Settings page (admin/settings/image_caption). Here, I select
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which node types should be included in image captioning. In my case, I only
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wanted this to apply to Blog posts.
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As I use the [FileField](http://drupal.org/project/filefield),
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[ImageField](http://drupal.org/project/imagefield) and
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[Insert](http://drupal.org/project/insert) modules to add images to my posts, as
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opposed to via a WYSIWYG editor, I'm able to add the CSS class of 'caption' to
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my images.
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Now, all images inserted this way will have the CSS class of 'caption'.
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As the Image Caption module uses the image's title tag to create the displayed
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caption, I enabled the custom title text for my Image field so that when I
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upload an image, I'm prompted to enter text for the caption.
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This results in a span called `image-caption-container` around the inserted
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image, and a caption below it called `image-caption` containing the text.
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All that's left is to style these classes within your CSS stylesheet.
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