How to Embed Wide Images

[Adam]

I know that many of you like posting wide photos, especially panoramas, but embedding these directly was previously very inconvenient becuase it would stretch the width of the post table by several screen lengths, making it hard to read any replies. The only alternative was to post a direct link to the image, but that would open up another browser window and make a mess on your screen.

That problem will no longer be an issue, however, with the latest addition to PentaxForums.com: the ThickBox 3 image resizing effect. If you want to post a photo wider than 800 pixels, simply wrap [imgwide] tags around it instead of the conventional [img] tags. For those of you using the WYSIWYG editor, that would mean clicking the button instead of the button. Please note that these buttons look slightly different if you're using the Classic or Simple layouts.

Wrapping an image URL with [imgwide] tags will automatically resize in and make it clickable. When clicked, the full-size image will appear on your screen using a JavaScript effect. When finished viewing the image, you can quickly close the JS window.

Here's a demonstration of how the effect works:

[imgwide]http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/953/butterflyjb6.jpg[/imgwide]

Click on the image to view it in a larger size

vs.


[img]http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/953/butterflyjb6.jpg[/img]



Users of 1024x768 (or below) screens will find this especially useful. Enjoy!

Do you like the image, centered, as it is, or would you prefer left-alignment?

[Buddha Jones]

You're a good man Charlie Brown.