I assume this gets asked a lot, but how do I add an image into a page, or a story?
Why do image tags not work?
Is there a way to blast the html filters into oblivion so that they don't interfere with anything?
This is just mind boggling. I mean;
There should never under any circumstance be a situtation in which that does not yield a result.
Then I go read about people developing modules so that they can have images on their pages? Why is that even necessary.
Of the 12 CMS's we've gone through and tested Drupal is over all the best, but there's always some totally messed up quirk that a CMS has. for Drupal, it's the fact that it doesn't let you put images in pages out of the box... when you use standardized html code.
*widens eyes in disbelief*
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drupal ships with a default input format enabled which is FILTERED HTML.
your options:
add the img tag to the FILTERED HTML input format, in administer -> input formats, or when adding images switch to the FULL HTML input format during content creation. There's a collapsed menu under the body text area, called input formats. click on it, switch the input format, then save your content.
You can edit the defaults and such as you wish in the aforementioned administer -> input formats settings area in the admin UI. With refernce to setting defaults for user roles, FULL HTML permissions is not an input format to be given lightly, and the PHP input format provided by the core php filter module, should be handed out with an extreme amount of caution.
There are different reasons one would install a module to handle images. However, the above answers your direct question with regards to using img tags.
Thank you for your response,
Thank you for your response, I should have clarified that I saw all of that. and tried all of it. the simple fact is that images to not show. the content was created with 'FULL HTML' but images still do not show.
Absolutely no image content whatsoever, without exception or limitation will show within a content block.
code is present, but the image does not show up. path to image is verified to be accurate, relative paths were attempted, as were direct paths, the image was moved to an entirely different server as a test, it still would not show.
Furthermore; no method to add an exception to allow the
tag was seen in either filtered HTML, or full HTML.
No such option is present in the 'Input formats' area.
There is no visible list of filtered or permitted tags which one can edit to gain a fast solution.
a WYSIWYG editor running TINYMCE as a front end was installed in an attempt to reach a work-around. during the edit process the image will show in the TINYMCE editor, however once the content is saved and published, the image is no longer visible.
Thus the desire to completely and utterly obliterate Drupals tag filtering and as such allow any and all tags withing all page content to remove design, formating, and usage restrictions that Drupal imposes by default, thus making it a viable CMS, rather than a restrictive one.
It was initially believed that 'FULL HTML' would be this solution, that was not the case.
No doubt the solution is quite simple and it is simply being over-looked. We're trying to set up a drupal page for our company, and are new to it, but with Blizzard, Lucas Arts, and BioWare using it, it must have some potential.
The reason we want to remove all filters and allow all tags is because no users outside the web team will be using it.
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There is absolutely a way to add tags, though not during the creation of content. The only options during account creation is the ability to switch the input format on that specific piece of content. In my previous comment I pointed you to where you will find the settings necessary to alter the way the input formats and the filters that make up those input formats are handled in administer -> input formats. If you want no filters at all involved. Create your own input format and don't enable any filters on it. Again, the ability to do that would be in administer -> input formats. Documentation WRT input formats and filters = http://drupal.org/handbook/modules/filter
drupal is relative to it's index.php. Ensure to use relative urls and that the images folder is accessible to drupal and has the proper folder permissions set by the server. Without knowing exactly you were trying to reference the file in your url and exactly where the file resides in your file/folder system there is no way to be specific with your issue.