Adding an Image Block | Scribe

    Adding an Image Block

    • T. Kim Nguyen |
    • 22 steps |
    • 3 minutes
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    Click the add item button.
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    Click "Page"
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    Type the title of this new page. For example, "Sample Page [[enter]] " Once you press [[Enter]], a new text block is added below and the cursor moves to it. Type the slash character ([[/]] ) to change this block to a different type.
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    In the menu that appears, click "Image".
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    The text block changes to an image block. To specify the image, you can choose one of the following methods: - Select an image that already exists in the site - Upload an image from your computer - Provide the web address of an image that is available on the Internet For this example, we want to select an existing image from this site.
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    In the image search panel that appears on the right, you can navigate throughout the site or you can type a search string to find the image you want. For this example, we click an image we had added to the site earlier.
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    In the right panel, click the "Alt text" field to provide a description of the image. This description will be presented to screen readers and will help visually impaired visitors to understand what the image represents.
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    The Title field is set to the same one that is on the image we chose. You can change the title here if you wish.
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    The Description is also taken from the image we had selected. The description can be changed here.
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    The Alignment buttons let you set how the image block is shown, relative to other blocks on the page. Try them all out!
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    The Link to field lets you specify, optionally, where on the site to navigate to if a user clicks on the image block.
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    To set the Link to item, click this button.
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    We search or navigate to the item we want to set as the Link to item. In this example, we click "wxyz bar".
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    Click the X button to close the target panel.
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    You can see what the Link has been set to.
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    If you'd like the linked item to appear in a new tab when clicked, check the box "Open in a new tab".
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    Click the Save button.
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    The image block has been added to the page.
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    The image block displays the title and description you provided.
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    Click on the image block.