Dragging an image into Araneae puts a vertical line character after C
in the path, as shown below. As a result, it doesn't display:
<IMG SRC="file://C|/WINDOWS/DESKTOP/scat/aabouv-38-full.gif" WIDTH=640 HEIGHT=480 ALT="" BORDER=0>
Is this something I am doing wrong? Thanks!
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Image drag and drop problem (4 posts)
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Terry
Member
Posted 9 years ago -
Mark
Administrator
Posted 9 years agoHi Terry,
What you've described is the correct behaviour. The vertical bar is part of a typical 'file:' URI for local pages. Chances are, however, that you want to use a relative path rather than the absolute reference to your hard drive.
When you create a new document, Araneae can not predict where it is going to be saved. This means it can not generate relative paths for your images. Instead, it inserts an absolute file path, like the one you posted.
To fix your problem, try saving your HTML document before inserting images into your document.
Good luck.
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Terry
Member
Posted 9 years agoThank you Mark. Saving the file first fixed it:
<IMG SRC="./scat/aabouv-38-full.gif" WIDTH=640 HEIGHT=480 ALT="" BORDER=0>
I am not familiar with the "|" character in the path -- which shows you how much I know.
I'll take the opportunity to say that it is very nice of you to make Araneae available. I like the clean, uncluttered simplicity and obviously others do too. As you add features it will be very fine if you can keep the same efficient style.
Terry -
Reid
Member
Posted 9 years agoI am not familiar with the "|" character in the path -- which shows you how much I know.
Usually paths begin with C:\, but in URLs you're not allowed to have that colon there; it messes things up, so the | gets used instead.
