"..for dummies"

How to upload a picture in a post?

First you need to upload the picture either to your profile gallery or to your junk folder on LT

Second you need to copy the address of the image. On a Mac you need to right-click and choose "Copy Image Address" on a PC you need to right-click and choose I think preferences and in the window copy the address source for the link.

Second you need to use a single line html code explained here: http://htmldog.com/reference/htmltags/img/

just forget the alt code and add the link that

This also provides with good examples
http://www.librarything.com/wiki/index.php/HelpThing:Html_tips

Thanks ironman i`ll look into it :)

>2 ironjaw: I didn't known this junk drawer feature. But how do you upload something into it?

>4 Pepys: My dear fellow Pepys, either go to your "Home" and see on the lower left side menu "Unused" under "Discover" here you can see a widget called "Junk Drawer" where you can upload pictures via the plus sign.

OR go to your "Profile" > "Your member gallery" on the extreme upper right, and then on your left upper side there is "Junk Drawer"

>5 ironjaw: Thanks. I had missed the "Add picture" click when I discovered the "Junk drawer".

If you wish, you can post a photo anywhere on the net (Flickr, Photobucket, your personal website etc.) as a jpg file and post it to the FSD forum by using the following in your post:-
xIMG SRC="http://host.com/picture.jpg"y
but note that the formula has to be changed so that x is the "less than" symbol and y is the "greater than" symbol, and the URL of your picture is placed between the quotation marks.

NB: Photobucket no longer works.

The actual formula for posting a picture to an LT forum, cannot be shown on the forum directly because it tries to act on the formula, so to make the entry above a bit clearer I have taken a photo of the formula, posted it to my junk image page and then uploaded it here.
This is the formula you need to use to post a picture on any LT forum:-

The URL of your picture site on the web is placed between the quotation marks.
This topic has also been added to the FSD group website wiki at :-
http://www.librarything.com/wiki/index.php/Groups:Folio_Society_Devotees#How_to_...
so that it can be found easily and referred to in the future.

Thanks Carter. I`ll look into this when i have time/take time ..

That photograph-the-text-and-post-the-image is an ingenious workaround. I prefer to use HTML escape characters as follows:

<img src="http://host.com/picture.jpg">.

In this case I used &lt; for <, &#58; for the colon, and &gt; for >. Everything else is typed as you see it.

You can find a full list of the codes by Googling "HTML escape characters".

Or you can use the following free link:

http://www.freeformatter.com/html-escape.html

and copy/paste the string.

>11 drasvola: What a great resource. I will be remembering it.

>13 GOBOGIE: You have to get the URL of the image itself, not the page it's on. Hover over the image, right click and then copy the image url. I'm not sure what browser you have, so I'm not sure the exact wording for the menu that pop up.

Here is the URL of that book: http://pics.cdn.librarything.com/picsizes/1a/77/1a77984e9aea90963676d706b77434b4...

Test.

Removed

>1 Pellias:

http://www.librarything.com/topic/177029

Star it

Hello
My first attempt at adding pictures to a post using the link described above was only partially successful. The pictures appeared but were a fraction of the size of the original images I have on my computer.
Any advice on how to avoid this in future?

>18 Cat_of_Ulthar:

Include the size parameter in the string, such as width=300. Try out result with the preview option.

Edited for correct parameter

>19 drasvola:
Thank you. That works although it looks a little pixelated in the preview when I increase the size

>20 Cat_of_Ulthar: Where is your image located? Its resolution might have been downgraded when you uploaded it somewhere. I assume you're sure that your original image is of high resolution and looks good when bloated. I usually upload pics straight to my Junk folder here on LT. Go to your profile, member gallery, then click on Add another picture. Select "Junk drawer" in the dropdown. After image is uploaded, go to the junk drawer, click on your picture first to see the full-size pic, right-click on it, Copy image address. Then when you use that address in your post, if the original pic is large, you might have to actually downsize it rather then bloat it.

Edit: Actually, thinking of it, it sounds like you probably just got the image address of the picture thumbnail rather than the actual picture. So wherever you uploaded it, just make sure to actually click on the picture to see it full-scale, and only then right-click to get the image address. Otherwise, if you click on image thumbnail, you'll get the address of the thumbnail.

21
Many thanks.
I probably did click on the thumbnail. I tried again and it enlarged with less pixelation.
I suspect the images may also have been downgraded when I uploaded them. I put them in my member gallery but I'll try using the Junk drawer next time and see if it makes a difference.

Stupid question time. How do I delete a message if it has outlived its worth?

>23 Cat_of_Ulthar:
Click on "More" at bottom of a post that YOU have posted, and the option to delete appears.
Click on "More" for some one else's post, and you get a different set of options.

>24 wcarter:
Thank you.
I was being genuinely stupid there.

(It's late in this part of the world. Doh!)

Spoiler Tag Test

And now we see!

To use: <spoiler>text</spoiler>

>26 NLNils: Thank you!

Friends and foes, i have a question :)

Mission: I want to read older posts

Problem: On the topic page - i click `next` i then click on a subject, when i leave the subject, i have been sent back to the main topic page

Problemsolving: Do LT have a site for this kinds of issues i could bring it on there, but if someone knows why this problem exist, and hand over the solution i will send my copy of YATTD to the winner anywhere in the world free of charge with a small secret something in/with it

Edited for: Solution

>28 Pellias: open subject links in new tabs

>29 gmacaree: Thank you. If you do want what i announced, you are much welcome, if so i need an adress, if not i wish you a peaceful day (hoping you appreciate those) :)

>30 Pellias:

You can't get rid of YRTTD that easily :)

>30 Pellias: I'll pass, unless you mean the rare LE version ;)

Oh, laughter. I have missed laughter on LT. But i think i have made it through the big depression. Thank you both. Mystery package: It would have been the extra(s) that would have made it special, who knows what that would be ;)

Anyway, you know the deal, your a smart man (as in intelligent, but probably also elegant)

Maybe i just drop YATTD in the neighbours box, and add a serious looking commercial `FS, we are proud of our books. The look, the feel, and the sniff. Take a look in our catalogue. `Slightly foxed` `Diary of a provincial lady` et.al ..

Anyway, most appreciated! Cumbersome LT is ..

Ed: Typo

Just collecting threads and links related to HTML coding..

1. https://wiki.librarything.com/index.php/Groups:Folio_Society_Devotees#Technical_...
   
2. Things Every Woman (and Man) Should Know About HTML and other techie questions answered
   
3. The New How To Do Fancy Things In Your Posts Thread
   
4. How to Do Fancy Things in Your Posts
   
5. *How To Do Cool Stuff in Your Threads
   
6. Basic HTML
   
7. https://wiki.librarything.com/index.php/Basic_HTML_/_How_to_do_Fancy_Things_in_Y...
   
8. https://www.freeformatter.com/html-escape.html (from >11 drasvola:)

Since LT does not fully hyperlink any URL with (brackets), we can interfere with the automatic generation of the hyperlink by adding tags like <b> or <i> to the text matter after https:// as follows:

Test URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_of_the_Rings_(musical)
HTML syntax to replace URL with text: <a href=URL_HERE>YOUR_TEXT</a>
Application: <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_of_the_Rings_(musical)>https://<b></b>en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_of_the_Rings_(musical)</a>
Required result: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_of_the_Rings_(musical)

(all credit to original poster Nevov for the solution and explanation here)