Help! Pasting correct image URL into my posts, but the image is not showing up.

[snot]

I'm copying the URL directly from the online image and pasting it into the post.

Has something changed about how to do this?

[CurtEastPoint]

1. does the URL end in .jpg or .gif etc?

[snot]

3. Yup;

it ends in ".jpg".

There's an ampersand in the URL; could that be the problem?

[CurtEastPoint]

4. that is puzzling... I am stumped! Ask Earl G

[eppur_se_muova]

2. Can you post part of the link as text ?

If it doesn't end with .jpg, you may have problems.

[snot]

5. Here's the link broken into 2 parts so you can see it:

http://www.c-cyte.com/images/

Gilens&Page-Charts-Probabilities_of_Leg_Adoption_v_Public_Pref_2014.jpg


I put a line break after "images/" so that you can see the URL.

[eppur_se_muova]

6. I think it's the hyphens, but I can't figure out how to correct it.

Last edited Fri Jan 10, 2025, 03:16 PM - Edit history (4)

http://www.c-cyte.com/images/Gilens&Page-Charts- Probabilities_of_Leg_Adoption_v_Public_Pref_2014.jpg

Usually replacing the offending character w/HTML takes care of the problem. Not this time.

Sometimes I've been able to substitute another character -- only w/apostrophes, carats, commas or single quotes is the text even visible, but then it doesn't link. It's not a hyphen, ndash, mdash, or minus sign!

Note that the first hyphen is fine -- so what's the second hyphen ??

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. I fixed URL, but Firefox says c-cyte.com is Potential Security Risk. So I won't post it. I didn't click through. . nt

[snot]

10. Hmm, wonder if that's it?

The kind of security certificates required to avoid such warnings are expensive, with the result that a whole lot of perfectly harmless sites are labelled as security risks.

I almost always blow past those warnings and have never yet experienced any security problem by doing so. It seems mainly like another way for big corps. funnel traffic toward their own sites away from smaller players.

[eppur_se_muova]

12. I can view the .jpg file, just can't make it visible in post. I got no safety warning w/MalwareBytes. nt

[CurtEastPoint]

7. Got it. Remove ampersand and put %26 instead... DURN I had it working!

[snot]

11. Awesome, thank you!!!

[Glorfindel]

9. I right-click on the image and click on "copy image URL"

Then paste it using Ctrl plus V.