Handling an image in a Multimedia Component
Handle images using customized HTML fragments.
- Dreamweaver Template solution
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You can handle images in Multimedia Components using customized HTML fragments in a Compound Template (typically a Dreamweaver Template) as follows:
- You can directly display the image.
- You can create a hyperlink to the Multimedia Component, which, on the published Web site, results in a hyperlink to a Web page that contains the image.
- You can create a hyperlink to the image file, which, on the published Web site, results in a hyperlink to the image resource.
- Non-Dreamweaver Template solution
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Only if your Compound Template uses does not use a Dreamweaver Template:
- To directly display the image, include code of the form
<img src="tcm:6-2" tridion:type="Multimedia" />in the output, wheretcm:6-2is the Content Manager URI (identifier) of the Multimedia Component that contains the image. On the published page, this results in the output<img src="pictures/Image01.jpg" />, wherepictures/Image01.jpgis your image file. - To create a hyperlink to the Multimedia Component, which, on the published Web site, results in a hyperlink to a Web page that contains the image, include code of the form
<a href="dummy.html" tridion:href="tcm:6-2" tridion:type="Component">link text</a>in the output. On the published page, this results in the output<a href="PageWithPicture.html">link text</a>, wherePageWithPicture.htmlis a Web page that contains the image. - To create a hyperlink to the image file, which, on the published Web site, results in a hyperlink to the image resource, include code of the form
<a href="dummy.html" tridion:href="tcm:6-2" tridion:type="Multimedia">link text</a>in the output. On the published page, this results in the output<a href="pictures/Image01.jpg">link text</a>, wherepictures/Image01.jpgis your image file.
- To directly display the image, include code of the form