Styling image description in admin

[AnotherAndrew]

Is there not a way for a user to style the image description field in the admin? I want a user to be able to add bold and italics to the image description field.

[AnotherAndrew]

After doing some digging, I see that this post has what I am looking for. I hope it helps someone else in the future.

Basically, extending the image field module is what I needed to do it. And Ryan provided an excellent module to do this. Thanks Ryan!!

http://processwire.com/talk/index.php/topic,466.0.html

[ryan]

I was just about to reply to this and you beat me to it. But I'll continue my original reply anyway– I was going to say that the 'description' field that goes with each image is really intended to be for the 'alt' tag of the image (though not limited to it). But as a result, it's not something that is meant to have markup in it by default. However, if you want to have markup in it there are many ways to go. The way I would probably do it is to use markdown or textile codes in the description, and then run it through that textformatter at output time so that it converts to HTML:

<?php
$markdown = $modules->get('TextformatterMarkdownExtra'); 
$description = $page->image->description; 
$markdown->format($description); 
echo $description; // outputs HTML

[AnotherAndrew]

What do you mean by "use markdown or textile codes in the description"?

Is that similar to using a <b> tag?

[ryan]

You are missing out on some good stuff if you haven't used these before. First off, textile and markdown are considered lightweight markup languages. This is the kind of stuff that you want clients to use in places where they might otherwise have to use HTML tags:

About LMLs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightweight_markup_language

More on Markdown: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown

More on Textile: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textile_%28markup_language%29