Not new topic, but I can't get HTML to work

HonestAl
HonestAl Posts: 406
edited April 2009 in Discuss the website with the team
Despite setting Always allow HTML in my profile I can't get HTML tags interpreted. So any images I try to post simply display the URL of the image. I always get HTML is OFF displayed when I try to post a topic.

I'm sure I'm doing someting simple wrong. Looked at other posts around this and I've not got the "Disable BBCode in this post" box checked.

Help please

Thanks
"The only absolute statement is that everything is relative" - anon

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  • whyamihere
    whyamihere Posts: 7,700
    Are you trying to use actual HTML or BB Code? BB Code will work, HTML won't.
  • HonestAl
    HonestAl Posts: 406
    Thanks for the quick reply. I'm trying to post links to pics, where the photo rather than the URL is displayed

    http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3563/345 ... 12.jpg?v=0
    When I try to use the tag buttons I simply get the text of the tag displayed
    [img][/img]http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3563/345 ... 12.jpg?v=0

    When I preview this I get the "[img]http: etc etc" displayed. I haven't actually tried to submit the page (so maybe it will work when I submit it) cos I didn't want to have to try to correct it[/img]
    "The only absolute statement is that everything is relative" - anon
  • whyamihere
    whyamihere Posts: 7,700
    This is a problem with the URL that Flickr gives. The forum software is expecting to see something like .jpg on the end of the url, but the Flickr url ends in ?v=0 instead. Remove the ?v=0 so that your code looks like this:
    [img]http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3563/3454561385_8f07c91a12.jpg[/img]

    And the result will be like this:

    3454561385_8f07c91a12.jpg
  • HonestAl
    HonestAl Posts: 406
    cool, thanks very much for the help
    "The only absolute statement is that everything is relative" - anon

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