how do i include pics in the text body of my postings? - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / beginners

author: questron
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: March 25, 2014, 04:45:28 pm
content: i was trying to include some pics in the text body of my posting, instead of having them at the end as attachments.i'm using google chroe 33.0;clicked the "insert image" icon, nothing happened;clicked the "preview" button, then the "insert image" icon, the (IMG)(/IMG) tags were put where the cursor was;i uploaded the pics onto my google drive and set the access to "public", then hand pasted the sharing URL, provided by google, between those two tags, preview showed a broken image link.what's the correct way of including some pics in the text body of my postings?thank you for helping!

author: linux-works
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 25, 2014, 04:55:17 pm
content: the tags are 'left bracket' img 'right bracket' and then the url of the gif or jpg (etc) file, followed by the closing tags.you can also enter the url of the image, highlight select it and press the mona lisa (?) icon to 'insert image' and it will tag it for you.

author: questron
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: March 25, 2014, 05:06:41 pm
content: thank you linux-works for the reply!yes, i understand, that's what i did. i typed () in place of [] because i'd have tags instead of text otherwise.what is the "mona lisa" icon? i'd like to give that a try.

author: questron
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: March 25, 2014, 05:34:16 pm
content: i pasted the image URL provided by google drive in the message window, highlighted it, and then clicked on the icon under the bold icon and to the left of the hyperlink icon, nothing happend.if'left square bracket' IMG 'right square bracket'image URL'left square bracket' /IMG 'right square bracket'is the correct syntax, i can type that in by hand, no problem. the thing is, if i do that i get a broken image link icon, instead of the pic.is this a google drive issue? google drive does not allow linking pics this way?i can't find a site that provides pic linking service without demanding your phone number. any help there?

author: linux-works
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 25, 2014, 05:48:30 pm
content: I use flickr. I've never had to give a phone number, nor would I EVER do that for any web service.the trick is: if you can get the url in your url bar and then see the pic, you are good. if you can't see it, then its not going to show up in a hot link.

author: mariush
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 25, 2014, 05:53:49 pm
content: Clicking on the image button results in the following added to your text : [ i m g ] [ / i m g ] (without the spaces). You're supposed to paste the url of the image between the img tags.What you can do is to click on the "Attachments and other options" and add your pictures and then post the message.After it's posted, you can view your message and expand each image that shows up at the bottom of the message to its large size and copy the URL. Next, click on Modify to edit your post and add the URLs where appropriate, between those img tags.The url must load a picture, not a page that will then load a picture. That's probably why the pictures in your Google folder won't load directly, because Google doesn't send them directly.

author: questron
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: March 25, 2014, 06:03:35 pm
content: thank you mariush for the tips!the URL i pasted in was copied from the "sharing URL" field of googel drive. that sounds like an URL that will load an image to me, but anyway, i'll try some other site and see what.thank you!

author: mariush
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 25, 2014, 06:15:08 pm
content: imgur.com works fine. They give you several formats after uploading the picture, but you can just copy the url (the one with i.imgur in it) and add the img tags before and after the url.But really, rather than uploading pictures to other sites, it would be better to attach them to your posts, so that months/years in the future when someone stumbles on your thread, your pictures will still be visible.

author: questron
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: March 25, 2014, 07:19:46 pm
content: cool mariush! i'll do that, very cool.thank you linux-works for all the info and help!just fyi, i just went to flickr, registration with them is to be done with yahoo. i have no idea yahoo bought them, but yahoo asks for every thing including a phone number, so nothing can go further from that point if no phone number is provided, you won't get an account.anyway, i have posted my question that has been killing me now. thank you all guys very much for the help!

author: Greorge
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: March 25, 2014, 09:02:17 pm
content: Looks that way around would be to post picture as attachment, where is should be and post it.Then make new post.This way pictures would be where you want them to be.Only down side that you have to make number of posts instead of one.

author: questron
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: March 25, 2014, 09:19:02 pm
content: thank you Greorge! that's how i fixed those pics.i made a posing with attachments,made the page show the original pics,read the URL's,put the URL's where the pics need to be with html tags,preview ok, save,then remove the attachments.the advantage of doing it this way, as maurish said, is that the pics and text are kept at the same place, no broken pic links down the road. i used the "modify" command in doing all these, no need to make a second posting if you don't want to.thank you for helping, and happy posting!

author: Greorge
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: March 26, 2014, 10:04:23 am
content: Looks like very smart way to avoid the multi-posts.Nice to know.Will keep in mnind.