The Blog edit page can be used to upload new images to the website, and their URL locations are listed below the article edit fields. For these files, the paths do in fact refer to a real file system. The consequence is that there is the possibility of a clash with existing files of the same name. The image or file selection chooses the destination folder on the server. Either /file/upload/ or /image/upload.

Multiple files can be selected at the same time from the open file dialog, but should probably be of the same type (file or image). Once the file has been uploaded, the appearance looks like this.

The upload list shows the file server path as the URL. Options are to view the image or delete it from the server. Deleting from the server does not remove any image link in the text.

To insert an image, select the insertion point in the text, and open the image insertion editor, from the icon, or from the Insert Menu. Paste or enter the URL in the Source field. The editor will fill in the initial dimensions from the image when the Ok button is clicked.
The Constrain proportions check box, if checked, will change width or height to keep the same shape when either one is changed manually.To go to the next line after some image and wrapped text, insert a page break. But although this works in the editor, the break is ignored by at least the firefox browser.

The Advanced tab allows entry of any style commands in css format. Here "float:right;" gets appended with the spacing by pixel. Units such as "em" to specify spacing in terms of character size could be appended after the space and border numbers.
It is bother to have scroll bars both on the browser window, and on the text edit area as well. There is a 'full screen' option on the menu which expands the editor to fill the entire browser window. This hides access to the save button, so do unexpand the window and save from time to time.
| author: | Michael Rynn |
| description: | Techniques of uploading and inserting images into the edit area. |
| keywords: | Help with image upload and insert |
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