Help:Gallery tag

For the screen adaptive gallery template, see Template:Gallery.

For the Wikipedia image use policy for galleries, see Wikipedia:Image use policy#Image galleries.

As of version 1.4, MediaWiki supports making image galleries with the <gallery> tag.

Syntax

The basic syntax is:

<gallery>
File:Wiki.png
File:Wiki.png|Captioned
File:Wiki.png|Captioned with alt text|alt=The Wikipedia logo
File:Wiki.png|[[Help:Contents/Links|Links]] can be put in captions.
File:Wiki.png|Full [[MediaWiki]] <br />[[syntax]] may now be used...
</gallery>

Which produces:

• 
• 

  Captioned

• 

  Captioned with alt text

• 

  Links can be put in captions.

• 

  Full MediaWiki
  syntax may now be used...

The extended syntax is (see gallery tag help and hereafter for full list of parameters):

<gallery caption="Sample gallery" widths="180px" heights="120px" perrow="3">
File:Wiki.png
File:Wiki.png|Captioned
File:Wiki.png|Captioned with alt text|alt=The Wikipedia logo
File:Wiki.png|[[Help:Contents/Links|Links]] can be put in captions.
File:Wiki.png|Full [[MediaWiki]] <br />[[syntax]] may now be used...
</gallery>

Which produces:

• Sample gallery
• 
• 

  Captioned

• 

  Captioned with alt text

• 

  Links can be put in captions.

• 

  Full MediaWiki
  syntax may now be used...

• Images are separated by new lines.
• Captions are optional.
• Notice that there are no brackets except for links within captions.
• A common mistake is to forget the closing </gallery> tag.
• The default width and height are 120px.
• If perrow= is omitted, the width is fluid: one row comprises as many images as will fit across the available width. Prior to MediaWiki 1.17, the default was 4.

See also

• Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Images
• Wikipedia:Picture tutorial
• Wikipedia:Extended image syntax
• m:Template:gallery (backlinks, edit)
• More gallery options: see the drop-down box for more CSS gallery code
• mw:Help:Images#Rendering a gallery of images