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2 Answers
Ryan Neese
5,027 Pointsif you're using an absolute link from the web, your tag should be formatted like this <img src="http://www.example.com/image.jpg">
the url of the image you want to use should be in the quotes. make sure the url links directly to the image and not a website containing the image.
Frankie Guerra
3,739 PointsA fast way to obtain the URL for the picture on the internet is to (on a windows pc), right click and select "copy image url" because they are usually extremely long. Use an absolute link vs a relative one. Remember absolute is for pictures outside of your own website. Relative is for images stored on your own website. An example of as absolute link is below. <img src="http://www.domain.com/images/zpicture.jpg">