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annie
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Feb 5, 2006, 9:06 AM

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Please could someone tell me how to format the html code in News Manager's article template to place a border around the image?


ross
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Feb 5, 2006, 11:12 AM

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Re: [annie] Border around images in NM [In reply to] Can't Post
Hi Annie.

Thanks for posting and welcome to the board!

On both of your News Manager templates there is a placeholder called $ufile_image$. This will pull in the URL to the image you uploaded. To have that image appear with a border around it, you can use the following code:

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<img src='$ufile_image$' border=1>

Could you give that a shot and let me know how you make out? I look forward to hearing from you Smile.
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annie
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Feb 5, 2006, 11:33 AM

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Re: [ross] Border around images in NM [In reply to] Can't Post
I couldn't see a $ufile_image$ placeholder in the code, only an $image$ placeholder as follows:

<p><table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=460><tr><td>
$image$<font face="arial" style="font-size: 13px;">$content$</font><Br>
</td></tr></table>

However, I swapped $image$ for <img src='$ufile_image$' border=1> but this did not work. I lost the right-alignment of the image and the image did not appear. Also, there was a red x on the pages where I don't have images.

Perhaps I'm missing the point somewhere.


ross
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Feb 5, 2006, 2:53 PM

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Re: [annie] Border around images in NM [In reply to] Can't Post
Hi again Annie.

Thanks for posting!

I actually missed on important detail. The $ufile_image$ will pull in the file name of your image. To use it properly, you’ll need to add the path to your uploads folder before it like this:

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<img src=”/nm/uploads/$ufile_image$” border=1>

This placeholder doesn’t actually appear on a default template so don’t worry if you can’t find it on yours. Just copy mine, double check that the path to your uploads folder is correct, and give it a try.

Let me know how you make out Smile.
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annie
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Feb 6, 2006, 6:39 AM

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Re: [ross] Border around images in NM [In reply to] Can't Post
OK, having done this I see the image. The right alignment has disappeared but I'm sure I can rearrange the template to accommodate this.

The only remaining problem doing it this way is that, on article pages with no image, I get a broken image link. Is there a way around this please?

Cool Annie


ross
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Feb 6, 2006, 1:52 PM

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Re: [annie] Border around images in NM [In reply to] Can't Post
Hi Annie.

Thanks for the update!

There is actually a neat little trick you can use with images to avoid broken image links. Check out this forum post for an explanation:

http://www.interactivetools.com/forum/gforum.cgi?post=44155#44155

From the sounds of it, that should work for you quite nicely Smile.
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