Broken image links and how to fix them, the dirty way.

in #steemit9 years ago

Have you noticed that sometimes an image doesn’t display correctly that the link is broken? I am not sure if this is a bug, maybe I am just doing it the wrong way perhaps. Anyway, if the linked image is referenced to a (https) llit works fine, like flickr for example. But what if your image is on a non https server? Placing the link in the toolbar displays it correctly until you hit the “post” button. As soon as the post is live the image doesn’t display in the post it only displays as a thumbnail image in the list files.

A workaround this can be done in the following way:

when you are ready to submit your post, go to ‘RAWHTML” find the link to the image and add two backslashes to the link before the (http//:) like this ( //http:// ) as in the image attached and hit the post button. This will then correct the broken links and you will not have to edit the same post over again. Hope this helps those who sometimes have a broken image link file. 


If someone knows a better, faster and safer way to do this, please let me know, thanks.



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