Thread: A Beg, as per my request on FujiXSpot

Please, if you are linking to flickr images, use BBCode and NOT HTML for displaying your photographs. There have often been issues regarding the display and now, with the new theme for smaller displays, the same issue is cropping up. HTML displayed images end up squared and disproportionate, and look awful. Its no great difficulty to use BBCode instead, its right there as an option next to HTML, as a first choice (and its the default, too)

Take pity, please, on those of us who don't want to change themes just to see your images in proper proportion.

Please, some help here.. I know what HTML coding looks like, I think I may know bbcode.. But can u give us an example of a bbcode?

Thanks
Gary

HTML

PHP Code:

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/nicprins/8499622144/" title="C350D-IMG_9332-PR Canon EOS 350D Halong Bay Vietnam by Nic (Luckypenguin), on Flickr"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8236/8499622144_785655b5b6_c.jpg" width="800" height="533" alt="C350D-IMG_9332-PR Canon EOS 350D Halong Bay Vietnam"></a> 


BB

PHP Code:

[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/nicprins/8499622144/][img]http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8236/8499622144_785655b5b6_c.jpg[/img][/url]
[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/nicprins/8499622144/]C350D-IMG_9332-PR Canon EOS 350D Halong Bay Vietnam[/url] by [url=http://www.flickr.com/people/nicprins/]Nic (Luckypenguin)[/url], on Flickr 


The first line of the BB code is the only part that actually displays the image. The rest is a bunch of links that flickr automatically adds to link back to the image or the photographer's photostream. The image is a clickable link anyway so the second part of the code isn't really necessary.

The only part that is used to display the image itself is this bit:

PHP Code:

[img]http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8236/8499622144_785655b5b6_c.jpg[/img] 


which gives this (image only, no link):





The full flickr BB code gives this:


C350D-IMG_9332-PR Canon EOS 350D Halong Bay Vietnam by Nic (Luckypenguin), on Flickr

Sorry somehow I am not seeing the bob code values in the same way I c the HTML ones. It is probably because I use ForumRunner app on my iPad. Correct me if I am wrong, but I think bb code for an image would be left bracket symbol ([)IMG] xxxx [/IMG]"?

Gary

Doesn't anyone use computers these days?

But yes, that's correct. Of course the link inside the IMG brackets has to be to the actual image file location, not the page that the image displays on.

Originally Posted by Luckypenguin

Doesn't anyone use computers these days?

But yes, that's correct. Of course the link inside the IMG brackets has to be to the actual image file location, not the page that the image displays on.

Lol, I use computers all the time in my profession... An iPad is just a specialized computer. iOS is nothing more than a very specialized version of the normal Mac operating system very specifically tailored for the hand held environment. Just as the Mac OS is nothing more then a specialized GUI over unix os :D.

Thanks

Peace
Gary

Yum, Pizza! by kyte50, on Flickr

Copied from Flickr on my iPad. The app you use to access forums has nothing at all to do eith the link you get from Flickr. Or it should not. The share link on Flickr has many options, of which HTML and BBCode are choices you make by radio button. It doesn't matter if you don't know the code, you just have to choose it --> select all --> copy, then paste into your post. Done and dusted



And thats what it looks like on flickr.

that's the key here, no-one needs to "learn" bbcode - it's just a question of selecting the right button in Flickr ... see also my a plea to image posters

Originally Posted by kyteflyer

Yum, Pizza! by kyte50, on Flickr

Copied from Flickr on my iPad. The app you use to access forums has nothing at all to do eith the link you get from Flickr. Or it should not. The share link on Flickr has many options, of which HTML and BBCode are choices you make by radio button. It doesn't matter if you don't know the code, you just have to choose it --> select all --> copy, then paste into your post. Done and dusted



And thats what it looks like on flickr.

OMG now I am hungry.. amazing looking pizza!

Originally Posted by Isoterica

OMG now I am hungry.. amazing looking pizza!

LOL! It was very nice. I couldnt eat much, but it was worth every bite.