[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #39180: Alt Text entry field should be expandable, double line

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#39180: Alt Text entry field should be expandable, double line
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 Reporter:  markciotola   |       Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)  |      Status:  closed
 Priority:  normal        |   Milestone:
Component:  Media         |     Version:
 Severity:  normal        |  Resolution:  maybelater
 Keywords:                |     Focuses:
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Changes (by joemcgill):

 * status:  new => closed
 * resolution:   => maybelater
 * milestone:  Awaiting Review =>


Comment:

 Hi @markciotola,

 Thanks for the suggestion and welcome to Trac. While I support the desire
 to encourage people to add useful `alt` text, I don't think turning this
 field into a multi-line textarea is the right approach. Unlike caption and
 description, the `alt` text ends up being used as an attribute value on
 the `img` element itself, which doesn't support things like line breaks
 within the text.

 The current input itself supports very long strings of text, so people
 aren't limited on that front. If anything, we might be able to add some
 kind of help text to encourage best practices, but changing the field type
 is probably not the way to go.

 I'm going to mark this ticket as closed, maybe-later based on the specific
 request, but feel free to continue discussion about other ways we might
 help encourage best practices here.

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