Image uploading and attachment in your forum posts
We've added a few new tools to the forums over the last months that probably could do with some explaining. These comments apply to the full reply form, not the quick reply box.
Firstly, lets look at the tool bar on the reply box, and we can see the attachment tool. It's the paperclip icon, as shown below. Clicking it opens the main attachment window.
The attachment window itself is pretty straight forward, just choose your files, hit upload and wait. Now we'll take a look at what we can do with our attachments to better format the post the way we want it to look.
To get started with some special formating, take a look at the paperclip icon again, and this time notice the small downward arrow beside it. Clicking this arrow will bring up a menu which lists all the files we have attached to this post.
Now lets place a few of our attachments into the post in specific places. I'll begin by placing my cursor at the location that I want the image to appear with in my text. I can also select a piece of text by dragging the cursor. Now click on the paperclip downward arrow, and click the desired attachment from the list. A special code will then be inserted into my text where the cursor was located, or if I had selected some text, that text will be replaced by the code. This code will be processed after posting the message, and the chosen image attachment will appear in that location. Very easy.
You can use this tool to better allow you to comment on a particular image attachment, with text placed near the image, just as you see in this example post and my images.
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