HTML SANDBOX 2021

[DoodleBob]

Done. Do you see anything? I see the question mark box. I’ll freepmail you the actual syntax I’m Posting.

[DoodleBob]

Excellent idea. I switched to Brave from Safari, but no improvement.

I may try Firefox later. Thank you.

[ShadowAce]

I still see the same thing I saw in the previous post.

[DoodleBob]

Do you see a question mark in a box, or the gif? I see the question mark.

HERE WE GO…One more time. Thanks for your time.

[linMcHlp]

When properly formed <img src=""> with the correct URL address for the GIF showing Jennifer Lawrence:

https://media.tenor.com/images/87732ea95ee70a9fc4a48054d3db7339/tenor.gif

located between the quotation marks, and no spaces other than the single space between "img" and "src", then the GIF image displays - as in your reply 237.

But, the URL address for the image in your reply 241, is:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3999744/%E2%80%9C

And, the URL address for the image in your reply 244, is:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3999744/%E2%80%9Chttps://media.tenor.com/images/87732ea95ee70a9fc4a48054d3db7339/tenor.gif

[Hebrews 11:6]

If you will download the text editor FRPFE in post #55, your problem evaporates. See the sample in post #142--notice "Image".

[linMcHlp]

A little error in my reply 246. Corrected:

Adding to, and attempting to clarify, my previous reply (245), when I right-click and copy the URL address for the image in your reply 241, what is copied, is the following:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3999744/%E2%80%9C

But, when I look at the RAW SOURCE for the whole webpage, and locate the HTML character string, the result:

<p><img src="“" />

[ShadowAce]

I saw the same thing as linMcHlp.

<p><img src="“" />

I think that is due to someting I saw in a few private messages DoodleBob sent to me where he has an extra '"' in his img src tag:

<img src=“ “https://media.tenor.com/images/87732ea95ee70a9fc4a48054d3db7339/tenor.gif“>

[DoodleBob]

Thanks for all your help. I saw the rookie error of double quotes. I cleaned it up, but still no luck. This still produces the question mark in a box.

I am going to try the editors that a few people recommended. I admit, I will miss hacking html code directly into FR.

[ShadowAce]

OK--Now I'm seeing the following:

<p><img src="“https://media.tenor.com/images/87732ea95ee70a9fc4a48054d3db7339/tenor.gif“"></p>

You have duplicate quotes in there now.

[linMcHlp]

Suggestion: https://www.textasticapp.com/

You need to verify what you believe to have copied . . . by using some text editor's text document window, into which you paste whatever is stored in the computing device Clipboard.

So far, some of what you are copying, sometimes includes characters that are effectively gremlins -- they do not display but cause an oddball space character to seem to have been entered.

The following URL address:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3999744/%E2%80%9Chttps://media.tenor.com/images/87732ea95ee70a9fc4a48054d3db7339/tenor.gif

for the image that you tried to post in your reply 244, includes a string of gremlins: %E2 %80 %9C

Those are ASCII characters that resolve to: â P œ

As used ("%E2%80%9C") in the above URL address, those unusual characters would cause a failure - your iPad Internet browser attempting to retrieve info from a server that fails to recognize the URL address sent from your browser.

[DoodleBob]

Wow….I was able to examine the source code and indeed, you’re right. Manual typing on FR on this ipad causes a phantom “ to be added.

I manually typed the img src html code and did NOT add the double quote. Voila! For the wrong reason, I can now type out html code to post the gif.

Thanks. For now this will work. Butnits gonna bug me WHY thisnis happening.

[DoodleBob]

Thank you, too…if I don’t manually add the quotes, I can type out the html code and make it work.

Weird.

[ShadowAce]

Glad to see it’s working.

[DoodleBob]

Yes…but it is so weird.

I can’t tell if the problem is the iPad, or how the iPad via the browser interacts with FR.

It’ll bug me for a while, and I’ll keep searching. But I’m back to typing. Thanks again.

[linMcHlp]

DB,

Wondering where the source is for the mysterious double-quotes . . .

Try the Clipboard Shredder app. It simply reveals what you have actually copied.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/clipboard-shredder/id1501049129

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If using Safari, you might

Go to Settings > Safari > Advanced > Experimental Features

then scroll all the way down to the bottom of the list and select: Reset All to Defaults

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There is an HTML tag that inserts enclosing double-quotation marks:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/q

https://css-tricks.com/quoting-in-html-quotations-citations-and-blockquotes/

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Somewhere a substitution action occurs during the copy-and-then-paste activities . . . could be a character encoding issue.

[Toespi]

[Hebrews 11:6]

You don’t say....

[Toespi]

HILARIOUS!