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General Discussion

how to post a screenshot in this forum

They say "add a screenshot and we'll see", but how can I post a screenshot? I found some note about posting img or something below, but I have no idea what it means.

3 Answers

John Coffin
John Coffin
10,359 Points

I have always wondered the same thing.

If you click on "Markdown Cheatsheet" it suggests the following format:

![alt text](/path/to/img.jpg "Title")

It doesn't cover uploading files to Treehouse, alas, and I have never seen it covered. In theory, one could link to an external source like so:

smiley

This uses the following code:

![smiley](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Smiley.svg/240px-Smiley.svg.png "Smiley")

One would wish that there was a more user friendly way of achieving this. However, if you have an image uploading site (i.e. Flickr, imgur, Google, whatever) you can link to screen shots there.

Andrew McCormick
Andrew McCormick
17,730 Points

John Coffin is correct. This is the correct format:

![smiley](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Smiley.svg/240px-Smiley.svg.png "Smiley")

There are lots of free services out there that allow you to upload an image and then link to it. I personally use Photobucket, but you can use any service that will give you a link. And yes, it's always an external link. There is no file upload option.

John Coffin
John Coffin
10,359 Points

Thanks for confirming what has always been my suspicion.

Thanks a lot, guys! I happened to have google drive to upload. It's just that I didn't know this link function.