Does Preview in posting work?

thanks Ryan.

When you create a post in the Preview tab, what you see is what you get.

I hadn't considered posts with images hosted offsite as I haven't used that function since LB1 had issues seeing images I had posted on another forum that were hosted on Imageshack.

From what you've said, it appears that there is no true preview of posts with images hosted offsite. Do I understand that to be correct?

When I've posted off-site images, I click on the BBCode tab (next to the Preview tab) to enter the code, then I go back to the Preview tab and can see my full post with the image before actually posting.

The Preview mode is active when you compose your post - it gives you a WYSIWYG view of your post (WYSIWYG = What You See Is What You Get).  If you click on the BBCode button, you'll get a look at your post with the computer codes used to display your message (assuming you need a code for something, such as displaying an image, quoting a previous message, changing the font, inserting a URL hyperlink, etc.).  Then you would need to click on the Preview button again to get back to the WYSIWYG.  In the stone age days of the internet, there were no WYSIWYG editors - if you wanted to do anything other than type straight text, you needed formatting codes of some sort (like the pseudo-HTML code for the kittens below).  Nowadays, most programs have WYSIWYG editors.



And, as a further explanation, if I were to click on the BBCode button for this post, instead of seeing a picture of the kittens I would see this:

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Boy, what a mess these Google Photos make of their URLs ....

Ryan