Help, This must be simple but it is driving me nuts!!!

[shawnkraus]

I want people to be able to come to my site and copy text that will place an image and link to my site on their site. The problem is when I enter the following code it does not show up as text but the actual image and link.

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<a href="http://www.pbase.com/ShawnKraus"><img src="http://k43.pbase.com/t6/44/691744/4/73167702.ImgEHPlB.jpg" alt="Images hosted by Shawn Kraus"></a><br>images of ShawnKraus</a>

Can somebody please help me with this, I want it to show up as text that they can copy.

[dang]

Shawn,
I'd wondered about this too, but haven't come up with the proper solution. I'm sure it can be done, but without java I still haven't found the answer. Here's a section you might read, and hopefully the site explains another way of doing it which I'm missing.
http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_scripts.asp

[alangrant]

Something along these lines should work:

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<a href="http://www.pbase.com/ShawnKraus"><img src="http://www.pbase.com/image/73167702/small.jpg"; alt="Images hosted by Shawn Kraus"></a><br>images of ShawnKraus</a>


Using "&lt" and "&rt" tells the browser to display a "less than" or "greater than" rather than interpreting it as the start of a HTML tag.

I have also used the "official" syntax for creating a permanent direct link to an image - for this to work you will need to have direct linking enabled. The syntax in your example (referring to k43.pbase.com) links to a copy of the image on a specific server, which may turn out to be temporary.

[dang]

Thanks, Alan!