Image Must Be Online
To post images in the forum they must be hosted on a website and then properly formatted into your post. Images residing only on your computer can't be posted or uploaded to the forum unless they are put online.
Websites where you can host images are
PostImage,
ImageShack, and
Flickr. If you have images on your computer and want to post them in the forum then use one of these websites to host the images. If the images you want to post are already online then there is no need to do this.
Get The Image's URL
When the image you wish to post in the forum is properly hosted on a website then you need to get the URL of the image. The URL of the image is the exact web address which the image can be found at. Don't mistake the URL of the webpage the image appears on for the URL of the image.
To get the URL of an image do this:
- in Chrome: right-click on the image and select "Copy image address"
- in Firefox: right-click on the image and select "Copy Image Location"
- in Internet Explorer: right-click on the image, select "Properties", highlight the Address field and press Ctrl+C
After this the image URL will be held in your computers clipboard.
This is an example of an image URL: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/page/images/skyline.jpg
Post Image Using IMG Tag
Now you are ready to put the image into your post. Use the IMG tag to do this. You can also click the
button which is available above the text area when you write your post. Press Ctrl+V to paste the URL from the clipboard.
The image URL must be enclosed by the IMG tag like this:
[img]http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/page/images/skyline.jpg[/img]
It is also necessary to properly credit the source of the images that you post. The image we are using here comes from the National Institutes of Health via Wikipedia (
link) so we state them as the source.
The final result is:
Source: National Institutes of Health via Wikipedia -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ne...llerCenter.jpg
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