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Saveloy

10:26 / 04.04.02

Am I the only one who finds that images (I mean all images, regardless of poster) appear all over the place - overlapping posts, obscuring text etc? I only ask because it's a major headache for me and no one else has mentioned it.

Please answer if you see everything fine; I'll ask for this thread to be deleted if it turns out to be a problem limited to me.

Mikaël

11:08 / 04.04.02

Which browser do you use?

I use Netscape and I have often this kind of problem on some sites.

On the Underground first page, the
"Profile:
User name: MiKL
Registered since: Oct 2001
Total posts: 59
Location: Brittany"
overlaps the "[edit profile] [log out]"
and the orange bar.

It's not a problem.

For the pictures, it's more annoying.
In the New Paintings in the Creation,
I can't read the 2 first posts under the pictures.

Mikaël

11:27 / 04.04.02

I know nothing about .css style files
but this could help.

In the main.css file, there's

If I understand correctly, the characters are 13 pixels heigh
with 5 pixels (18-13) between 2 characters, one above the other.
I think the problem is that the line-height is always 18px,
and if there's a picture on the line that's taller, it overflows.

At least, when I remove that line, there's no problem.

Saveloy

12:33 / 04.04.02

Many thanks, MiKL. I'm not entirely sure that I understand your solution but I'll have a go anyway.

Tom Coates

15:24 / 04.04.02

Yes - that's the situation with Netscape 4.x and stylesheets. If you want to avoid this happening you can wrap the image in a table. But this isn't going to happen most of the time...

I'm afraid I would really recommend you upgrading your browser if at all possible... Get Mozilla if you're not keen on IE...

Mikaël

04:16 / 05.04.02

It's not a solution you can use.
The HTML pages call stylesheets files
to know things like size, color, space ...

This file is on the server. You can't modify
it. Cal could, if he thinks it'd not disturb the layout.

What I've done is saved a topic and the
.css file on my HD and removed that line in it.
And it seems to work but Off-line

Tom Coates

08:41 / 05.04.02

I don't really know what the best solution is going to be on this one... All I can say is that it's in your best interest to upgrade your browser...

Yeah, NS 4.7x is crap with stylesheets. I don't think there's a way round it.

Download NS 6.2.2 - apart from being better on this point, it's also miles better generally.

Or use Opera, like all the most intelligent, imaginative, charismatic and sexually dynamic people.

Murray Hamhandler

20:29 / 17.04.02

Harry Christmas' post above is, I think, in reference to a problem that I was going to ask about. One I've seen quite frequently lately. The link he posted is to a picture he tried to post to the In defence of Igor Kordey thread over in Comics. The code seems to be right and it matches the code used for posting images elsewhere on the board, but it isn't working. Could someone explain how to fix this and, if possible, explain why the exact same code works in one place and doesn't in another? Thanks.
Arthur Sudnam, II

testing...

here

testing...

Well, I don't know... it looks like that particular page just isn't available at the mo?

Substituting square brackets for html brackets, the code I use for images is:

[img src = "http address"]

...and for the http address, you right-click on the image, go to Properties & copy the image source from there. Does this not work for you?

Murray Hamhandler

22:54 / 17.04.02

Yeah, that's the code being used and it's not working. And that's the code that works for most image links. And the URL itself works. The image at the original site is up and functional. That's why I can't figure out why the image link isn't working. This isn't the first time that I've had this problem.
Arthur Sudnam, II

P.S. Checked the link again before I posted...the image is now, for whatever reason, not working. But it was working earlier and the link still wasn't going through then. I'll just delete the link for now and leave this puzzlement pending until the next time it comes up.

w1rebaby

09:25 / 18.04.02

can i just try something?

<img src="blah">

w1rebaby

09:29 / 18.04.02

yes, that works

I was just illustrating how to illustrate HTML tags using the right characters without having to say "...but replace the brackets". You use & followed by lt; or gt; - less than and greater than, geddit? - to get triangular brackets.

This should be on various HTML cheat sheets, there are various other reserved characters like © that you can get on a similar basis.

w1rebaby

09:31 / 18.04.02

Oh, and as for image posting not working, some servers (particularly free ones like geocities and angelfire) will not let you remotely post images. You have to access them from pages within the right domain. If you want to use them, you'll have to copy them to a different server.

Persephone

11:38 / 18.04.02

<bows to fridgemagnet>

The Return Of Rothkoid

17:29 / 18.04.02

PM me if you've a picture you want stuck on a server - I've done it for a couple of pics already, so a couple more won't hurt...

sorry, I've been aching to try posting an image for quite a while so indulge me in a test

thank christmas!

Likewise, I wanna post an image - I'll test it now:

[img src = http://www.bigcedarfoxtrotters.com/images/ The%20Ranch/Snuggles.jpg]

Did it work? We'll see!

Cosmicjamas

16:38 / 28.02.03

Apparently not. Back to the drawing board.

Jack Fear

16:46 / 28.02.03

(1) Use pointy brackets, not square.

(2) No spaces before or after the equals sign.

(3) No spaces in the URL itself.

(4) Quotation marks around the URL.

Other than that, spot-on.

Maybe:

I did it, I did it!! Thanks for the info Jack Fear, hope you like the picture (grabbed randomly from Google image search but I did once put a German Shepherd Dog in a rugby shirt myself!)

Icicle

13:18 / 25.03.03

I've got an image on a floppy that I wanted to post on Barbelith, can anyone explain to me really simply how to do it?
thanks

Tom Coates

14:31 / 25.03.03

First thing you have to do is to make sure that it's a format that web browsers can read (jpg/gif). Next you have to do is find a place online to store it - like a web server or the like. Then you use the code people are talking about above - like that -> <img src="http://myurl.com/myimage.gif">

Spatula Clarke

15:13 / 25.03.03

A number of people here use VillagePhotos to host their images. They impose a viewing limit, so if it's an image in a thread that you think a number of people are going to read in any one 24 hour period you might be better off using ListTailor. Again, there's a limit, but this one's time-based, with your images deleted after three months.

You can also resize any image within the HTML tags, plugging width and height values in like this:

<img src="http://myurl.com/myimage.gif" width = however many pixels height = however many pixels>

which is what's been done to yours, Benjamin.

grant

18:50 / 25.03.03

I use Sony's Image Station, myself.

And in general, for resizing pictures, if you just put WIDTH="400" inside the tag for an especially big picture, it'll take care of the height automatically.

Spatula Clarke

18:08 / 27.03.03

Be careful with VillagePhotos images - when you upload them you'll be given a number of URLs, and only certain ones are for linking out with.

Spatula Clarke

18:21 / 15.04.03

That's not going to work, Jack, because you're not using an image URL - the *.jsp extension is an entire Java page. You need to bring up the properties window for the image itself - right-clicking on the image gives you this option. Select 'Properties' and you'll see the correct URL there.

The Great Jor of Babylon

22:25 / 16.04.03

oh oh.

The Great Jor of Babylon

22:26 / 16.04.03

sorry about that. my first time.

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