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-rw-r--r--system/helpers/html_helper.php6
-rw-r--r--user_guide/changelog.html3
-rw-r--r--user_guide/helpers/html_helper.html4
3 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/system/helpers/html_helper.php b/system/helpers/html_helper.php
index 4afa678a3..cd7b4ce6b 100644
--- a/system/helpers/html_helper.php
+++ b/system/helpers/html_helper.php
@@ -199,6 +199,12 @@ if ( ! function_exists('img'))
$src = array('src' => $src);
}
+ // If there is no alt attribute defined, set it to an empty string
+ if ( ! isset($src['alt']))
+ {
+ $src['alt'] = '';
+ }
+
$img = '<img';
foreach ($src as $k=>$v)
diff --git a/user_guide/changelog.html b/user_guide/changelog.html
index 1aa06d388..124a1cb9f 100644
--- a/user_guide/changelog.html
+++ b/user_guide/changelog.html
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ Hg Tag: </p>
</li>
<li>Helpers
<ul>
- <li>Added <kbd>convert_accented_characters()</kbd> function to <a href="./helpers/text_helper.html">text helper</a>.</li>
+ <li>Added <kbd>convert_accented_characters()</kbd> function to <a href="./helpers/text_helper.html">text helper</a>.</li>
<li>Added accept-charset to the list of inserted attributes of <kbd>form_open()</kbd> in the <a href="helpers/form_helper.html">Form Helper</a>.</li>
<li>Deprecated the <kbd>dohash()</kbd> function in favour of <kbd>do_hash()</kbd> for naming consistency.</li>
<li>Non-backwards compatible change made to <kbd>get_dir_file_info()</kbd> in the <a href="helpers/file_helper.html">File Helper</a>. No longer recurses
@@ -124,6 +124,7 @@ Hg Tag: </p>
<li>Modified <kbd>prep_url()</kbd> so as to not prepend http:// if the supplied string already has a scheme.</li>
<li>Modified <kbd>get_file_info</kbd> in the file helper, changing filectime() to filemtime() for dates.</li>
<li>Modified <kbd>smiley_js()</kbd> to add optional third parameter to return only the javascript with no script tags.</li>
+ <li>The <kbd>img()</kbd> function of the <a href="./helpers/html_helper.html">HTML helper</a> will now generate an empty string as an alt attribute if one is not provided.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Other Changes
diff --git a/user_guide/helpers/html_helper.html b/user_guide/helpers/html_helper.html
index a0ac8bdde..50a1c48a4 100644
--- a/user_guide/helpers/html_helper.html
+++ b/user_guide/helpers/html_helper.html
@@ -95,8 +95,8 @@ second the size of the heading. Example:</p>
// gives &lt;img src=&quot;http://site.com/images/picture.jpg&quot; /&gt;</code>
<p>There is an optional second parameter that is a TRUE/FALSE value that specifics if the src should have the page specified by $config['index_page'] added to the address it creates. Presumably, this would be if you were using a media controller.</p>
<p><code>echo img('images/picture.jpg', TRUE);<br />
-// gives &lt;img src=&quot;http://site.com/index.php/images/picture.jpg&quot; /&gt;</code></p>
-<p>Additionally, an associative array can be passed to the img() function for complete control over all attributes and values.</p>
+// gives &lt;img src=&quot;http://site.com/index.php/images/picture.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;</code></p>
+<p>Additionally, an associative array can be passed to the img() function for complete control over all attributes and values. If an alt attribute is not provided, CodeIgniter will generate an empty string.</p>
<p><code> $image_properties = array(<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;'src' =&gt; 'images/picture.jpg',<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;'alt' =&gt; 'Me, demonstrating how to eat 4 slices of pizza at one time',<br />