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Adding images

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- [Instructor] If you understand the syntax for links, then the syntax for images is pretty much the same, but with an exclamation point at the beginning. So I've got this set of posts right here, and these are all linked as I showed you in the last video. And I've got a URL to a file that is from this post. So we're going to try to link these to the posts just as we did before. Now to show the image, I have to use the same type of format, so the link would go in parentheses. And one thing you'll find is that a lot of editors will let you select something like a link and then let you type in the parentheses and it'll add them to each side like this. Same thing with the brackets, it doesn't always work, but it's really nice when it does. So whatever you put in the brackets in this case will be what's in the alt tag. So right now this looks exactly like a link. And as a matter of fact, this is how you would create a link to an image. But if you want to see the image instead of link to…

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