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Optional frames, borders or shadow around images

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Sometimes, images found in posts blend with the background. That can certainly look better than an image that stands out from the surrounding page, but every now and then, standing out is just what is needed. This can often be the case with screenshots of Codidact itself, where it's confusing when looking at a post with such a screenshot in it, and it blends with the rest. Having a frame, border or shadow around these images, can provide necessary clarity, and helps set content apart, giving a better overview. My latest post turned out to be rather unpleasant to look at with two screenshots of another Codidact question, so I followed a suggestion to put them in citations, to get a border around them. That's better, but it doesn't look pretty. It's not what citations exist for, so having another way to specify either a border or a shadow behind the image, would be nice. We don't necessarily need two options for either a border or shadow; we can decide on one of them.

I'm not sure what the best way to support this is, so I'm leaving suggestions for that up to answers.

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Edit: withdrawn. There are issues with this approach, including the possibility of introducing technical inaccuracies (see comments).

Original post (kept to preserve the discussion and let future answers know it's already been considered):

I'd rather build something in than make users figure out whether each image needs special handling. What about if images in posts always get a small border? (I'm not proposing to change the behavior of any other images, like user avatars.) I don't know how the Markdown-to-rendered-HTML path works, but if we could add a border element to that img tag on its way out from Markdown, that seems like it would present a good user experience.

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Borders around schematics could seriously confuse (4 comments)
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I'm not sure if that's a good idea. I'd prefer not having borders if there's no need for it. Unnecessary borders often aren't the prettiest. I'd like to see an example of a border applied to a variety of pictures in various posts first, though, before dismissing the idea.

The technical solution should be extremely simple for this solution. It's likely just one line in a CSS file.