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(putting post in more appropriate place)

I'd like the wikidot image tag to automatically generate "width=" and "height=" HTML code, so that images get appropriately sized placeholders. This would be particularly useful for resized images (e.g. size="medium").

At present, without manually adding these tags, when an image finally renders it upsets the pagination (things move around). It's more obvious when you use wikidot anchors that point to a page location that occurs after an image. The more images that precede the anchor, the worse the problem gets. In these situations it makes the anchor feature far less useful.

At present, I work around the problem by manually adding "width=" and "height=" code to all wikidot "image" tags, including resized images. It's a bit labour-intensive, particularly with resized images, as I have to preview the page and inspect the resized image to determine the image dimensions.

For example, on this page, I use the following code to generate an image placeholder:

[[f>image groll_house_upstairs.jpg size="medium" width="338px" height="500px"]]

Without the manual tags:

[[f>image groll_house_upstairs.jpg size="medium"]]

…the text moves as the image is rendered.