Forum Posting Tips

This article outlines some advanced posting options, such as displaying inline images, and the use of HTML tags:

Inline Images

An inline image is an image that appears within your post, with the text wrapping around it. To display an inline image:

Upload the pictures with the File Attachments menu.

This is an inline image.

Note the path (...www.buildering.net/files/....) shown in the uploaded files description.

Create an image container in your post

Use the "image" div to display pictures within your posts. The image will display to the left, and all text (or other images) will "wrap", i.e. display immediately to the right of the image.

Use the URL from your uploaded file, or any URL from any other site. If using an uploaded image, uncheck the "list" box in the File Attachment menu - otherwise the images will be listed as attachments as well (redundant).

If you stack image divs, that is declare one div after another, the images will display left to right until running out of room, at which point they will continue on the next line.

The max display width for a story is 900px. Please keep your image widths less than this!

"imageR" is similar to the "image" div, only the picture will display on the right hand side of the screen, with text (or other images) wrapping to its left.

Use the "spacer" div if you want to stop all text after the div from wrapping alongside the "image" divs.

For posting links, simply type the web URL and drupal will automatically convert it into a link.

That's it. Thanks for reading this and taking the time to learn how to use the new site!