From 5ffe32ef589b9fb910ca75999a22680f060e09a6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andy Miller <rhuk@mac.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2018 15:30:51 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Fix alt tag issue #1883

---
 CHANGELOG.md                                  | 3 ++-
 system/src/Grav/Common/Helpers/Excerpts.php   | 9 +++++----
 system/src/Grav/Common/Page/Medium/Medium.php | 4 +++-
 3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 69c4388e8a..03e3ec0bbd 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -14,7 +14,8 @@
     * Vendor library updated to latest  
     * Improved `Session` initialization
 1. [](#bugfix) 
-    * Fixed issue with remote PHP version determination for Grav updates
+    * Fixed issue with image alt tag always getting empted out unless set in markdown
+    * Fixed issue with remote PHP version determination for Grav updates [#1883](https://github.com/getgrav/grav/issues/1883)
 
 # v1.4.0-rc.2
 ## 02/15/2018
diff --git a/system/src/Grav/Common/Helpers/Excerpts.php b/system/src/Grav/Common/Helpers/Excerpts.php
index b294bd9551..d774bcf463 100644
--- a/system/src/Grav/Common/Helpers/Excerpts.php
+++ b/system/src/Grav/Common/Helpers/Excerpts.php
@@ -246,11 +246,12 @@ public static function processImageExcerpt(array $excerpt, Page $page)
 
             // Process operations
             $medium = static::processMediaActions($medium, $url_parts);
+            $element_excerpt = $excerpt['element']['attributes'];
 
-            $alt = isset($excerpt['element']['attributes']['alt']) ? $excerpt['element']['attributes']['alt'] : '';
-            $title = isset($excerpt['element']['attributes']['title']) ? $excerpt['element']['attributes']['title'] : '';
-            $class = isset($excerpt['element']['attributes']['class']) ? $excerpt['element']['attributes']['class'] : '';
-            $id = isset($excerpt['element']['attributes']['id']) ? $excerpt['element']['attributes']['id'] : '';
+            $alt = isset($element_excerpt['alt']) ? $element_excerpt['alt'] : '';
+            $title = isset($element_excerpt['title']) ? $element_excerpt['title'] : '';
+            $class = isset($element_excerpt['class']) ? $element_excerpt['class'] : '';
+            $id = isset($element_excerpt['id']) ? $element_excerpt['id'] : '';
 
             $excerpt['element'] = $medium->parsedownElement($title, $alt, $class, $id, true);
 
diff --git a/system/src/Grav/Common/Page/Medium/Medium.php b/system/src/Grav/Common/Page/Medium/Medium.php
index c8473efbe9..4811c8d542 100644
--- a/system/src/Grav/Common/Page/Medium/Medium.php
+++ b/system/src/Grav/Common/Page/Medium/Medium.php
@@ -284,12 +284,14 @@ public function parsedownElement($title = null, $alt = null, $class = null, $id
         }
 
         if (empty($attributes['alt'])) {
-            if (!empty($alt) || $alt === '') {
+            if (!empty($alt)) {
                 $attributes['alt'] = $alt;
             } elseif (!empty($this->items['alt'])) {
                 $attributes['alt'] = $this->items['alt'];
             } elseif (!empty($this->items['alt_text'])) {
                 $attributes['alt'] = $this->items['alt_text'];
+            } else {
+                $attributes['alt'] = '';
             }
         }