Hi Amanda,

For alt text on media items using the media and multimedia picker I generally use the name property for the media items.

If you wanted to use a different property to allow it to be more descriptive you could build a media type that inherits from Image and add an AltText property. (You could probably even just add the property to Image.)

That way you could keep the alt text consistent no matter where the image is used by a picker and retrieve it like any other property in your controllers/views.

With the rich text editor in v7 the media picker offers an alt text field when picking an item. Keeping this in sync with the field that you added to Image would be tricky though. You'd probably have to dig around and create your own tinymce button.

Hope that helps a little.

Hi James,

Thanks so much for your reply. I guess I'm too much of a newbie to even know where to begin with this...

For my site logo, I currently have :

<img src="@Umbraco.Media(Model.Content.GetPropertyValue("siteLogo").ToString()).Url" alt="" width="200px" class="img-responsive" />

(which I got from another thread)

and I can technically use a property that I created called "siteTitle" for the alt tag, but I am wondering if there's any other way since I will have multiple images on a page that won't be able to use that property. You had mentioned the .Name property? How would I formulate that to correspond to a specific image? Would I use CurrentPage?

My apologies for being such a newbie, and thanks in advance for your help.

Best,

Amanda

Hi,

I have the same problem. I cannot use the media/imagem .Name because the website is a multilanguage website.

Whats the best practice?

Thanks, Pedro

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