Attaching an image from the Web to a forum post

[Fletch]

Did you know that you can attach an image to the forum by clicking:

1. attach button:
2. then inside the browse window address line,
3. paste the url,
4. then click "open",
5. then click the "add the file" button.
6. This was done with Vista and Firefox (3.6 or 4.01) with this inspiring picture: http://www.instablogsimages.com/images/ ... FyF_58.jpg

If you have a different computer system and have tried this method and it works, please let us know.

the other way to attach the image is of course to:
paste the url into your thread message
highlight the entire url
click the URL button above the text box
now when you preview the message you will see the image too.

Code: Select all

[img]http://www.instablogsimages.com/images/2011/05/18/bike-bus_3UFyF_58.jpg[/img]

The problem with this method of course is sometimes hotlinking to an image like this is forbidden by the webmanager for the site. Or, the site disappears or moves in the future and now the image is gone. This is bad for forums because they may have searched a topic to find help with an issue, and after finding the helpful thread, it is a useless thread because the images are now gone.

[d12dozr]

Hey sweet, it works! I don't know how many times I subconsciously wished for something like that...I'm using Win 7 and Firefox 4