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Optional frames, borders or shadow around images
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.
I prefer no border for general images I would not want every image to be surrounded by a border. Images are added for …
2mo ago
Images should not be forced to have borders. If you are posting a diagram, for example, then it is already visually dif …
2mo ago
Edit: withdrawn. There are issues with this approach, including the possibility of introducing technical inaccuracies ( …
2mo ago
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Edit: withdrawn.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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