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50066 Make alt text input a textarea on classic editor edent sabernhardt "The alt text interface is a single line which only shows a few characters of text.
If we want people to add meaningful `alt` text, this should be improved.
I suggest making it a `textarea` element.
This is already the case in the Gutenberg editor - see https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/6119
The code is in /src/wp-includes/media-template.php :
{{{#!php
}}}
That `input type=""text""` can be changed to a `