Image alt text not displaying on WordPress

Question

I have added an alt text on my image, but it doesn't display on homepage. Is there a way to get the alt text to display with the image without re-attaching the image, since the image was previously added on the site without alt text.

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Thanks

Answer 1

The "alt" text isn't the text which is displayed - that would be the figcaption text.

If you add a caption text directly when you insert the image (or when you edit it ) in Wordpress, WP automatically creates a shortcode that puts the image and the text into a figure element which contains both the image and the caption text (inside a figcaption tag).

(And if you don't add a caption text in WP's image edit box, the image is inserted without the figure tag, as a regular img tag. Whatever the alt attribute in there contains, will not be displayed - it only serves for accessibility purposes or is displayed if the image is missing)