how to insert online image (via its web address) into post?

May as well post this here. I've just looked on another XF forum and that has an extra button to link to a URL

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Could be but the plot thickens...

When I try Charlies link in the other site it refuses to accept it. The link says 'not secure' in my browser. Would that do it?

Allen's mic image URL is accepted immediately.

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I do it by hand all the time

Easy peasy to type [ img] and [ /img] and enclose picture link inside.
Here I added a useless space so it does not try to show anything, you do it the right way.

Example, using handwritten img tags:

girls-nerd-kit.jpg


Mind you: sometimes/often it does not work, not because of DIYAudio software but because original image is "locked" and "forbidden to display outside original site", as in Amazon, EBay, Alibaba, Facebook and many more sites, in that case you are forced to download and reupload.

And sometimes even download is forbidden, you can only display them on (original) screen.

If image is very very important and unavailable otherwise, you can screen capture it and crop/edit on some graphics software.