How to Embed a Photo/Picture on the web, in the text of your message

Post a Picture within the text of your msg

For those of you wondering, here's how it's done:

1)First, find the photo(s) you want to show up within your message on the web*

* Notice: Any photos you attach using this method, MUST exist at a Web-Address. One cannot embed photos from their personal computer using this method. The reason being, only YOU would ever see such photos. All others viewing the message would not be able to see any picture.​

2)Next, denote the web address of the picture and copy it to your clipboard

HINT: Left-Click your mouse while hovering over a pic and select copy image location -or- view image. This should reveal the web address of the image so you can see, or copy it.​

3)Type in the text of your message as you normally would, then

4)Place your cursor within the text, wherever you want a picture to show up and select the little PostCard looking icon up at the top in the text editor.(see image below)

 

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5)Once you click on it, and you'll first see a drop-down box asking you for the location of the picture you want to post within your message. (see 1st image below)

6)Just paste the web address of the IMAGE into that drop-down box and then hit OK. (see 2nd image)

 

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7)What happens next is, the Image's location on the web is embedded into your text in sort of a codestring like

[ IMG ]http://www.somewebsite.org/assets/Uploads/pictures/_resampled/medsize/image#220.jpg[ /IMG ]​

Note: To show the codestring here, I purposely inserted blanks around the IMG abbreviations above so a picture would not appear up there. You won't normally SEE this code (unless you select Advanced Editing), and instead the picture will just appear within your draft of the message.​

Thus, the result is...


An image right within your text!

 

You can also select the image right in the draft of your message, by clicking on it once then just choose the Centering Icon (see below) to center it within your text.

Thus the result is, your picture is now Centered (Left to Right) like this...

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Well, Xenforo will automatically resize an image. It will appear as wide as your browser allows and if it's too big it will automatically create a re-sizeable preview of the image and if you click ON the image it will appear full-size.

I can see the image above just fine, so not sure what you mean when you say "the image is not resized or even visible, but is linked to"?

You don't need to use another online photo storage site, unless you just want to embed a picture that way.

You can also just drag-n-drop any picture from your desktop into a new post, or of course you can always upload an image into a post.

When you upload a picture, of course you can choose it to appear as a click-able thumbnail or appear full size. Again, if it's actual full size is too big for the screen, Xenforo will automatically re-size it to appear within the width of your browser window.

I can see from re-reading this thread above, I need to re-do it and better explain how XF allows users to embed pictures. So, I've added that to my To-Do list now!

 

Actually, there are 3 choices. Whenever you upload a file, there are two buttons beside the thumbnail of the temporary image where you can choose: Thumbnail or Full Size image. If you choose thumbnail, it will embed the image as such and LINK to the full sized image. If you choose Full Size, then it embeds into the message just like it does via a web-referenced URL on another photo sharing website.

As for storage space, actually we would rather have the images on our server. That way the thread is as interesting and explanatory as the day it was posted...even a decade later! Sorry, it's one of my pet-peeves as 'I' hate going to a forum to find a thread about exactly what I need to know/see/learn-about...only to find all the referenced images are long gone. That said, when we started RRI Jon & I agree we should host our own images for just that very reason.

Now as for members being able to customize the size of their images, that I'm not sure about so I'll look into it.

However, very few boards ever allow embedding HTML code within a post since it opens a door for hackers to do all sorts of bad things. vB actually didn't allow HTML either, however I had modified the forum's code to automatically translate any (attempted) HTML code insertion into what is known as BB Code instead. I don't know enough about XF yet to do that, but as I said I'll look into it.

 

FYI it is and you're right!

Let me somewhat re-phrase my statements , as I intended to say that 'our' copy of vB didn't allow HTML code within posts...Not even by Administrators.

Yes, both vB and XF have the capability to allow users to embed HTML into their posts, it's just no seasoned administrators 'I' know of ever allow it. Just too many risks involved, both for the website and the user's private/personal data. Then again, I always err on the side of caution...especially after seeing so many data-breeches in the past few years.

So yes the software has the capability of allowing users to post HTML code, it's just we (i.e. RRI) have always left that function OFF.

 

Not that I'm presently aware of, but I've not researched it enough yet to actually know if it's possible. Will be a good study for me though, cause no tellin' what else I'll turn up about XF in the process.

Your other points, are just as stated.