Attachment question

[Daddles]

I just put up a new thread where I wanted to re-use an existing attachment.

I know how to browse my attachments via User CP. I know how to get the URL of the chosen attachment but ...

I wanted to show the attachment as an attachment, not as a raw link or an image. How do you do this? The attachment window wouldn't upload the from the attachment's URL (surprise, surprise) and I couldn't find anything to code the URL as an attachment into the post.

This is the thread http://woodworkforums.ubeaut.com.au/...536#post541536
I want that thumping great big piccy as an attachment.

Richard

[bitingmidge]

Drag it to your desktop, change the name of the pic, then upload it again.

That's my work around. (which is why I occasionallly run pics inline - I'm too lazy to do it!)

But I'm watching with eager anticipation. Wongo can do it I know he can.

Cheers,

P

[Wongo]

OK now I am under some real pressure. Well that is a way but it is a programmer's way.

You create and image, make it 20% big, create a link to the image. When click on, a new window opens up with the same image.

Confused??


<a href='http://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com.au/attachment.php?attachmentid=50110&d=1183784135' target='_blank'><image src='http://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com.au/attachment.php?attachmentid=50110&d=1183784135' height='20%' width='20%' border=0></a>

[Wongo]

Do this and replace "[", "]" with "<", ">"

[a href='ADDRESS OF PICTURE' target='_blank'][image src=''ADDRESS OF PICTURE' height='20&#37;' width='20%' border=0][/a]

[Daddles]

Thanks boys. I was aware of both of them but was hoping to save some of Neil's bandwidth by reusing existing files. I guess I'm after a third option in the attachments window - 'upload from your computer', 'upload from a URL', and 'use an existing attachment'.

Richard
here's where Al tells me that already exists