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nav: blog
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title: Review of the Image Caption Module
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slug: review-image-caption-module
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tags:
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- drupal-planet
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- drupal
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- drupal-6
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- imagefield
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- image-caption
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Up until as recent as last week, whenever I added an image into one of my Blog posts, I was manually adding the caption below each image and styling it accordingly. That was until I installed the [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 is a walkthrough of the process that I followed to install and configure the module. As always, I used Drush to download and enable the module, then visited the Image Caption Settings page (admin/settings/image_caption). Here, I select which node types should be included in image captioning. In my case, I only wanted this to apply to Blog posts.
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As I use the [FileField](http://drupal.org/project/filefield), [ImageField](http://drupal.org/project/imagefield) and [Insert](http://drupal.org/project/insert) modules to add images to my posts, as opposed to via a WYSIWYG editor, I'm able to add the CSS class of 'caption' to 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 caption, I enabled the custom title text for my Image field so that when I 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 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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