Dose GC support image links?
If so, what is the html code that's used to create an image link?

If you mean, does GC support embedding images from other places, then yes, using the img tag:


Although quite a lot of sites (including GC) don't allow deep-linking of their images, so I've made mine above into a link to the supporting web-site, by wrapping the url tag round the img tag:


Kevin

You would have to upload it to a web-site somewhere - usually an image sharing website (I use 23.com, other alternatives are available; Flickr, Instagram etc: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_p ... g_websites)

When it's uploaded and is publicly accessible, you should then be able to link to it.

However - re-reading your comment makes we wonder if you're asking an entirely different question. Are you asking if you can make a link on your computer - i.e. nothing to do with GC at all?

Kevin

It sounds to me like you're confusing concepts here.

An image displayed in a page on a web-browser can be made into a link to some other website or a different page/section on the same website - but that is under the control of the HTML document which defines the web-page, and hence under the control of whoever authors the HTML and uploads it to the server in question.

What you're describing sounds more like a desktop shortcut - ie. you want to be able to click on an image on your desktop and have it take you to some pre-designated web-page. Is that it?

No, I want to create links here on GC using images, that when you click on them they take you to whatever the link is for on the interweb.

Also, I have these questions about the code.

Yes it is the website url
Yes it is the image url

"What is this for?"
You have started a [url] tag and GC then considers everything that follows to be clickable and will send you to that url. Therefore you need something to tell GC that you want to stop making everything clickable and the [ /url] does that - it could be called a closing tag.

Kevin

No.

The code tags STOP GC from changing the [ url] tags into actual links. We use them to show the code, without GC formatting them.

Kevin

Got it.

I know GC use to be able to link an image to an address, but somehow that feature got broke a few years back (hence I usually just post link of hirez above a lower rez image).

Really, I didn't know that.

I don't believe anything has broken. The ability to create a clickable image has always been available and is still working. The correct BBcode is as paynekj has already outlined.

For example, this clickable text:

Wallace Profile

is created using the following BBcode.



To create a clickable image, just replace the text "Wallace Profile" with an image tag .



is created using the following BBcode:

Almost, this is the basic code you need.

Then add a URL to make it a link.

Upload the image in the usual way. That will generate a line in your post which looks something like:

Then just put: before it and: after it.
To leave something like this:

The links you posted don't seem to work.

I don't know why I'm having such a difficult time understanding this?

I know I've tried this in the recent past for Flickr but it didn't work. Will try again on a future submission Tux.

@Wallace

You just uploaded this image



and displayed it in the post using this code.



Suppose you want that image to link to: http://google.com

Just add


before the image code and


after the image code.

So the full code becomes:


Which gives you the clickable image.

I think I've got it now...

Thanks for all your explanations you guys.