I fail at HTML, please help

[theguitarhero6]

So, I have been desperately trying (and failing) to attach pictures to a forum post on Escapist through the HTML method.
I am able to properly size the image, but it only comes up as "image [X]", which contains no image.
My understanding is this is how to lay it out...

img src="trex.jpg" width="500" height="250">
with the excluded < at the begining, of course.

So, could somebody tell me where I am going wrong?

 

[DazZ.]

Look up BBcode.

It's not HTML that gets used in threads.

Edit: Wikipedia link [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBCode]
There you go, a list of HTML to BBcode things.

 

[theguitarhero6]

THIS is how the picture winds up looking

 

[theguitarhero6]

Look up BBcode.

It's not HTML that gets used in threads.

Really, because I was led to believe that it used HTML, hmm...

 

[DazZ.]

Look up BBcode.

It's not HTML that gets used in threads.

Really, because I was led to believe that it used HTML, hmm...

Not in forums as using HTML is giving users more power than they need, leading to security holes.

 

[DazZ.]

Double post, here's a puppy to make it better.

 

[theguitarhero6]

[*img]image url[/img] (remove *)

Like this...
[*img]http://comicscavern.posterous.com/your-great-old-one-of-the-day-cthulhusaurus-r[/img]

or this?
[*img]trex.jpg[/img]

(Excluding the *)

 

[Heart of Darkness]

Yeah, you need to use BBCode here. The easiest way to add an image here is to do this:

<img>Image source goes here</img>

If you want to do it closer to HTML style, you'll need to do this:

<img_inline src="source" height="height" width="width" align="align" caption="Caption">Something goes here...I forget what though<img_inline>

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EDIT2: And I just looked up what goes in-between the img_inline tags: the source. Either seems to work, though, as long as something goes between the tags.

EDIT: BLUH BLUH formatting errors resulting from editing. Should be fixed now.

EDIT3: Image tags changed to img tags. I'm not usually this incompetent.

 

[theguitarhero6]

Ok, now you're just bragging...

 

[theguitarhero6]

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/comicscavern/vjsvjDAyDFDvonawexhoenIusABBpCboBCvdFCFgJrshBaJhokjbDeppuxxf/media_httpiimgurcom8T_oBmmJ.jpg.scaled1000.jpg&imgrefurl=http://comicscavern.posterous.com/your-great-old-one-of-the-day-cthulhusaurus-r&usg=__rhoHijMa2VtO0l0gRMmVyrMToAg=&h=551&w=1000&sz=92&hl=en&start=0&zoom=1&tbnid=pE7dri794FW2SM:&tbnh=104&tbnw=189&ei=ILlITem0OobYgQey3LDVBQ&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dcthulhusaurus%2Brex%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26rlz%3D1R2ADRA_enUS401%26biw%3D1659%26bih%3D798%26tbs%3Disch:1&um=1&itbs=1&iact=rc&dur=623&oei=ILlITem0OobYgQey3LDVBQ&page=1&ndsp=38&ved=1t:429,r:0,s:0&tx=105&ty=38

 

[theguitarhero6]

http://funnyjunk.com/funny_pictures/1598064/Cthuluhusaurus+Rex

 

[theguitarhero6]

 

[theguitarhero6]

Double post, here's a puppy to make it better.

Well, that's nice of you, but I'm still unsuccessful...

 

[DazZ.]

Well, that's nice of you, but I'm still unsuccessful...

Instead of posting every attempt, hit "preview" and edit until it comes up.

Find the picture you want from the internet. Right click on the picture, goto "copy image url" (or whatever your browser labels it), then paste it in between these tags.

[*img]pasteHere[/img]

Then remove the * from the first tag.
That should do it.

 

[theguitarhero6]

quote]Instead of posting every attempt, hit "preview" and edit until it comes up.

Find the picture you want from the internet. Right click on the picture, goto "copy image url" (or whatever your browser labels it), then paste it in between these tags.

[*img]pasteHere[/img]

Then remove the * from the first tag.
That should do it.[/quote]

Well, I was tinkering in the preview box prior, but to no avail.
Also, the closest thing I saw on the RC menu was Copy Shortcut

 

[theguitarhero6]

Well, that's nice of you, but I'm still unsuccessful...

Instead of posting every attempt, hit "preview" and edit until it comes up.

Find the picture you want from the internet. Right click on the picture, goto "copy image url" (or whatever your browser labels it), then paste it in between these tags.

[*img]pasteHere[/img]

Then remove the * from the first tag.
That should do it.

Well, I was tinkering in the preview box prior, but to no avail.
Also, the closest thing I saw on the RC menu was Copy Shortcut

 

[Lyri]

[*img]image url[/img] (remove *)

Like this...
[*img]http://comicscavern.posterous.com/your-great-old-one-of-the-day-cthulhusaurus-r[/img]

or this?
[*img]trex.jpg[/img]

(Excluding the *)

You have it right here, just delete the * in the first

 

[DazZ.]

Also, the closest thing I saw on the RC menu was Copy Shortcut

What browser you using?

 

[theguitarhero6]

Also, the closest thing I saw on the RC menu was Copy Shortcut

What browser you using?

Internet Explorer

 

[Buzz Killington_v1legacy]

You need a full URL and path to your image in your tag--i.e., it needs to be hosted somewhere. If you just put "trex.jpg", your web browser doesn't really know where to get the image from. (It'll assume from the same directory as the page you're reading, which almost never works except on very, very small sites.)

(Oh, and HTML does work here for image links--I just tried it.)

Edited to add: For instance, if you wanted to post the picture of the puppy up there, the tag would look like this (remove the *):