[tamathumper]

Sometimes when I post, the smileys (emoticons) only display as a link, and not the actual smiley.



Aside from being a good lesson to use less smileys, is there any reason for this? It happens whether or not I use the quick or full editor, and it happens even if I go back in and edit the original message...



Just wondering.

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[banditsc]

If your clicking the Show All link, you probably need to scroll to the right to see the picture.

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[tamathumper]

This is in the actual posts themselves, and the smileys are so small they don't require scrolling. Instead of a little yellow smiley face, all I see is something like below (with spaces added to avoid the board trying to interpret it):



[ img ] url of the smiley picture here [ /img ]

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[banditsc]

That is odd, I've never seen that before.

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[DaveN]

I had that yesterday trying to use a "fancier" emoticon, just got the link info. Had to edit the post and go back to a boring <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/smile.gif" class="smilie" alt="" />

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[flash]

if it was in the introductions area, it is because it does not allow any inclusions there

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[tamathumper]

Ah, I'll bet that's it. Thanks flash, I didn't know they were considered an inclusion, but that makes perfect sense. I'll try to smile less.

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[DaveN]

Mine was in the "Out for a Drive" section.

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[tamathumper]

Today I noticed that if you use the "shortcut symbol" for the smiley, like the colon/parenthesis (with no space between them), it will display the smiley, even in the Introductions section.



: ) = <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/smile.gif" class="smilie" alt="" />

; ) = <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/wink.gif" class="smilie" alt="" />



... etc.

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