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Jesse Monson posted 2017-06-27 22:00:12

HI TEAM,

I can't see my alt text! This is happening in iOS and Yahoo. I suspect I can't see it in iOS because the empty boxes where the images should be don't stretch out to the dimensions of the missing image and so the alt text is getting lost in the nether.

The Yahoo bug isn't on my machine so I can't speculate as to why, but does anyone else suffer from this malady?

THANKS,
J

Rémi Parmentier replied 2017-06-28 11:46:38

Hi Jesse, this is something typical of WebKit, the rendering engine behind all web views on iOS. If your alt text is too long to fit in a single line within the width of your image, it will be made completely invisible. Also, you need to make sure that your alternative text doesn't "touch" the icon displayed by WebKit. You can see the same behavior on Safari or on Apple Mail.

I'd suggest to make your alternative text shorter. Or you can also try to style it and reduce its font-size on the <img> tag.

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