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Doug

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Message 107518 - Posted: 21 Mar 2022, 14:52:52 UTC

I have a dumb newbie question, even though I'm not a newbie.

I've seen posts with images that the poster inserted, along with text. How do you insert an image in a post? It would be very useful to illustrate problems, questions, etc. I see there is an "Img" formatting tag, but if that is the means, I don't understand how to use it.

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Doug
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Harri Liljeroos

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Message 107519 - Posted: 21 Mar 2022, 15:08:52 UTC

The image should be posted on some picture hosting service on the net and put the url-address of the picture between the [img] tags.
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Message 107520 - Posted: 21 Mar 2022, 15:39:44 UTC - in response to Message 107519.  

The image should be posted on some picture hosting service on the net and put the url-address of the picture between the [img] tags.
Additionally, the image -URL should end on .jpg, .bpm or .gif , it cannot be the 'anonymous URL' some image sites use. A good free one is https://imgbb.com/
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