How to embed images

A lot of people have had trouble with this because the forum uses very non-standard shorthand. This will likely be changed in the future, but in the meantime, the current way to embed an image within your post is to put exclamation marks before AND after the URL of the image that you want to post.

Example:

!http://www.theworldtakes.com/mike/domoavatar.jpg! will become

Feel free to use this thread to test image posting if you’re not sure that you’ve got it figured out.

Note: the forum will not resize images, and will create a scroll bar for images that are too wide for the posting area. This is OK, but it looks a little bit ugly, so try to resize any huge images and post a link to the high res versions. This is especially helpful for people on slower connections.

Additionally, you can use the standard html image tag. Its harder than using exclamation points, but you can use it in case you do need to resize the image.

The code: <img src='http://www.theworldtakes.com/mike/domoavatar.jpg' width='20' height='20'/>

will become:

Arcane is teaching me many tips for the forum that I should know how to use a lot better than I do :D

The fact that this topic even exists (and that it’s as helpful as it is) demonstrates just how much we need to tweak this thing…

greg is right, kongregate is a great site, but needs ALLOT of tweaking. and the fact that everytime i post i get an error massage, and have to back out of it.

Grrr still doesn’t work for me! This is the image I was trying to embed http://bp2.blogger.com/_nUrR2iUDtpo/RjQJaEOEvXI…

Grrr still doesn’t work for me! This is the image I was trying to embed

bmps are not suited well for the web. Convert it to a better format.

OCD3: Yeah that happens to me when I’m on a PC, but when on a Mac it works fine. Definitely a bug, though :)

I’m actually trying to get to the bottom of that bug right now.

I can’t embed jpegs either wtf :(

Thats due to the site you are linking to.

the monkey works

behold your future monkey KING

Dammit

http://content.crazyphotos.com/Animal_28929.jpg

Now time 4 my own again http://www.thatvideogamesite.com/ctpl/b11bb57a8…

So, the forum supports HTML tags?

I already knew that, but does it support all the tags?

Ummm… Try clicking here

JavaScript not enabled

Iframes not enabled

FOOLZ

Javascript, Blink, and Iframes not being enabled is a very, very good thing.

Yay. Ketchup!

does it work with img tags?

i guess not. could you make it so that it does?

testing

Hope this works

Edit: YAY!