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sologuitar

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Re: Solve for D

phrontister

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Re: Solve for D

Your image doesn't, and can't, display.

That url (https://imgur.com/gallery/4Gh1VYy) is to the gallery page on which the image (+ other stuff) appears. It is not a url to the image itself, which it has to be for the image to display via BBCode's img tags.

This is the url to the image itself:

https://i.imgur.com/KuTBe7A.png

And putting that url between img tags, like so...

[img]https://i.imgur.com/KuTBe7A.png[/img]

...produces this:

Note that (as I mentioned in other posts) the url begins https://i.imgur.com... and ends with an image extension (.png). These are two essential components of a valid Imgur url.

The gallery url - https://imgur.com/gallery/4Gh1VYy - and the image url - https://i.imgur.com/KuTBe7A.png - are very different from each other, so you can see that the gallery url (which doesn't display the image) can't simply be changed to the image url (which does display the image).

To get an image url (instead of a webpage url), you need to follow the instructions in other posts on this thread.

If none of the already suggested methods have enabled you to find the image url, it may help if you can somehow open just your image in a new tab on your browser. However, I can't help you with that because I don't have a smartphone and don't know how they work.

Last edited by phrontister (2023-10-01 23:09:25)

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amnkb

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Re: Solve for D

The important thing when copying an image url is that the link you're copying must refer to an 'image address' (ie, with an 'image extension' as above), not something else like a 'link address'.

Btw, the direct Imgur url to an actual image begins https://i.imgur.com... ('i.' signifying it's an image link, I suppose).

This is the URL of the image: https://i.imgur.com/t8F77rc.png

Note that it starts with https://i.imgur.com and ends with an image extension (png, in this case).

And from the image in my post #14:
     "Tip: The URL starts with https://i.imgur.com, and ends with an ‘image extension’ (eg, ‘gif’, ‘jpeg’, ‘jpg’ or ‘png’)."

Your https://imgur.com/gallery/4Gh1VYy doesn't start with https://i.imgur.com, and doesn't end with an image extension...

on a mobile the image extension doesn't show up and the uri starts 'https://imgur.io'
the image file itself is at https://i.imgur.io/7uB3NEI_d.webp? with a query string after the query mark

phrontister

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Re: Solve for D

on a mobile the image extension doesn't show up and the url starts 'https://imgur.io'
the image file itself is at https://i.imgur.io/7uB3NEI_d.webp? with a query string after the query mark

I followed your instructions from post #6 and changed https://i.imgur.io/7uB3NEI_d.webp? to https://i.imgur.io/7uB3NEI.jpeg, but that didn't work. Neither did other changes I tried.

Btw, webp, which appears in your url, is a valid image extension recognised as such by Imgur. And so https://i.imgur.com/t5wC8Hg.webp works fine, just like the other 4 image files that I listed in my post #10.

Which image does https://i.imgur.io/7uB3NEI_d.webp? refer to?

Also, what did you change the url to that worked, and did you test it in img tags?

Does the info in this link help any? Direct link to image on mobile

I'm rather hamstrung trying to help resolve this issue, not having a smartphone!

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sologuitar

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Re: Solve for D

Here is my url:

https://imgur.com/gallery/4Gh1VYy

You told to place between the following:

[ img ] https://imgur.com/gallery/4Gh1VYy [ / img ]

When I do that, there is no picture.

What am I still doing wrong?

Two things:

1. Image tags and the url within the image tags can't contain spaces, but yours do, and must be removed. I've marked the offending spaces with a red x:
    (a) before and after the url: xhttps://imgur.com/gallery/4Gh1VYyx
    (b) in the opening tag: [ximgx]
    (c) in the closing tag: [x/ximgx]
    Note: Image tags are a BBCode formatting option that must obey a specific syntax for them to work.  See example here: BBCode (near the bottom of the 'Links and images' box).

2. The url is to a webpage, and although that page contains the image (+ other stuff), the url must be to the image itself.

See the following...

...the image extension can be any of '.gif', '.jpeg', '.jpg', '.png' (and probably more)...

The important thing when copying an image url is that the link you're copying must refer to an 'image address' (ie, with an 'image extension' as above), not something else like a 'link address'.

Btw, the direct Imgur url to an actual image begins https://i.imgur.com... ('i.' signifying it's an image link, I suppose).

This is the URL of the image: https://i.imgur.com/t8F77rc.png

Note that it starts with https://i.imgur.com and ends with an image extension (png, in this case).

And from the image in my post #14:
     "Tip: The URL starts with https://i.imgur.com, and ends with an ‘image extension’ (eg, ‘gif’, ‘jpeg’, ‘jpg’ or ‘png’)."

Your https://imgur.com/gallery/4Gh1VYy doesn't start with https://i.imgur.com, and doesn't end with an image extension...

This is getting to be too much. The image link or code is not working on my phone. So, I will use this site mainly for help with applications. If a certain problem has an image, I will describe the geometric shape to be best of my ability. This is a good site. I will use it mainly for applications and equations.
Thank you for your time and effort.

phrontister

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Re: Solve for D

Thank you for your time and effort.

That's fine...and I give up too.

I'm just disappointed I couldn't find the solution to your problem.

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sologuitar

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Re: Solve for D

Thank you for your time and effort.

That's fine...and I give up too.

I'm just disappointed I couldn't find the solution to your problem.

It's ok. You tried. It's a Android problem that I just don't know how to fix.