What causes certain photos and thumbnails to be shown on a page as a big red X? I've gone over the code a dozen times and the format seems to follow the rules for the table and other photos are fine within the table. It's a mystery to me and I'm hoping this is some easy answer for you programming guys. Thanks.

Example

I see "Blah>jpg" vs. "Blah.jpg"

Simple HTML errors due to bad typing. For the Yocum Ridge photo, that page has:

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<img src="hhtp://www.summitpost.org/images/thumb/45400>jpg">


Near the beginning, you should have written "http", not "hhtp", and near the end, should be a dot (period) (.) just before the "jpg", not a greater-than sign

BTW, the big red X is generated by your browser to tell you it can't find a photo. Other browsers will show a "broken file" logo or something else.

Edit: the Castle Crags one has a subtler problem: should be .JPG not .jpg. A longstanding annoyance: SP preserves whichever spelling the original file had on your computer.

Brian Jenkins wrote:What causes certain photos and thumbnails to be shown on a page as a big red X? I've gone over the code a dozen times and the format seems to follow the rules for the table and other photos are fine within the table. It's a mystery to me and I'm hoping this is some easy answer for you programming guys. Thanks.

Example

It's because your pictures suck. Try posting a sweet shot of some bikini-clad hottie crimping on some beach boulder. That ought to work.

separately, why the hell are you using TH tags when what you mean is TD?

lol at FM

Ah, sorry, so it's my mistakes. I read those over and over and still missed them. Thanks for the corrections, didn't mean to make you guys be my proof-readers but I appreciate the help.

"why the hell are you using TH tags when what you mean is TD?"
--- because I don't even know what those things mean and I was just going off what an article by thephotohiker said (Pictures in tables on pages, oh my) but I probably misread something. See, I'm not a computer guy. When I was in high school and college, I was out drinking and having sex with women, not learning programming. ;- )

Fortmental-excellent point, I'll get on that................

Thanks amigos, appreciate the responses!

I just skipped the drinking.

http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/tab ... l#h-11.2.6

Table cells may contain two types of information: header information and data. ...

The TH element defines a cell that contains header information. ...

The TD element defines a cell that contains data.

Cool, thanks! I missed that one.