I would like to weigh in on the discussion of the Rolling Stone cover, but do not wish to do so with successfully linking to several image files.
If I paste the Image URL, and select it as one does when one wants to bold text, I get junk.
If I use the “image” button to plug in the proper HTML, and then paste the Image URL between the quotes, it looks good to me. But the “preview” button does not show my pretty picture, just the text.
So, even though this makes me feel like my dad, with “12:00” blinking away, as it has since I moved out in 1989, on the VCR, viewing the site in an ancient version of Internet Explorer, running on Windows 95, with 856 junky toolbars consuming half the screen, can someone tell me how to properly post an image in comments, using an image URL?
Thank you in advance, and please stay off the lawn.
Until then, excuse me, my stories are on.
Open another tab or window and find the page you want to link to.
Highlight and copy the URL.
In the comment box highlight the word(s) you want to function as the link. For example you can say, “See image here.” and highlight ‘here’.
Click the word ‘link’ above the comment box and paste the URL into to small box that appears and click OK. There is some code language that appears at that point and it appears the preview function is currently not working, but if you hit submit it should be OK.
If you want to embed rather than link I’ll need to yield my time to someone else.
Try the following:
Copy and paste the blockquote above, then remove the “@” symbol.s and change the “$” back into a “less than” symbol.
Fail.
Oh well. I eventually tried christopher’s solution, but something wierd happened when I clicked submit, and I thought it was lost to oblivion.
Now I see it is back, but apparently invisible to all of you because Comment Awaiting Moderation, which is a thing I never saw here before.
Alas, you are now all deprived of my crucial insights on this particular McIssue, based on my exhaustive wasting of time this morning clicking through old Rolling Stone covers.
Be assured that I sympathize with the great loss you have suffered.
This one is simplier, try just changing the initial “$” to a “<" symbol.
Think of the $img (after replacing the $ with “” as parentheses. You are creating an “image tag” that tells the browser to insert an image element. Inside the image tag (between the opening and closing parentheses) is a sequence of attributes, where each attribute is a key-value pair. The key can be one of several attribute types defined by the html spec. The value is always a double-quoted string (and always use the plain ascii double-quote character (shift-comma on standard keyboards).
The “src” attribute is required. It tells the browser where to find the image. You can get by with just that, but then the image will be posted at whatever its “native” size is. I’ve had better results within BMG by always adding a “width” attribute, and ALWAYS specifying the width as a plain number (NOT a percent, no units). For example, I’ll specify a width of 300 (pixels) for the image in this comment with the following width attribute:
The alt attribute isn’t required by the BMG backend.
So here is (using the notation of mike_cote) the html for the above image, 300 pixels wide:
I like this approach because it works in both comments and posts. The only additional caveat is that some sites protect their image URLs in way that causes the image to not show even if the tag is correct. Most (but not all) of the time you can tell that from “Preview”, but of course the Preview functionality in comments is apparently broken again.