Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-9605025-20170102050208/@comment-9605025-20170107050051

I'll say it a 3rd time. I am aware that the tags used directly in portable infoboxes are not standard tags but those designed specifically for Fandom. However, the documentation for how to use them clearly and in no uncertain terms tells you what they are supposed to be translated into. The documentation clearly shows that the content of the Fandom portable infobox "alt" tag is used to as the input to the HTML "alt" attribute for the HTML "img" tag.

When I posted my original question, it was under the assumption that Wikia's documentation of its own tag was 100% correct. Given that, I tried to look at documentation for the corresponding HTML. Based on what I found for the HTML that the Fandom tags are supposed to correspond to, I came to a conclusion about what behavior the Fandom tag should produce. Actual attempts at using it did not do as I expected; hence this thread. After this lengthy discussion, it has come to my attention that HTML is not as rigidly defined as I had thought. The unexpected behavior I saw matches one of several outcomes allowed by the "loose" specifications of HTML. I really don't know how else to explain the situation.