This question relates to vBulletin boards, like this one. The reason I'm asking here is because in order to get help with vBulletin, you have to be the purchaser of the product, and I'm just a member, so I can't actually post this question to the vBulletin help boards -- I tried to.

My question: Is there any way to get [CODE] tags to work when surrounding [IMG] tags?

When I type [CODE] tags around [IMG] tags around a URL to a pic, like this:


What I get is the picture from that URL inside a code box, like this:
But what I want is the code of the IMG tags as well as the address inside the Code box, like this:


I've tried everything I can think of, including checking my cp settings and unchecking the box "automatically parse links in text" which is what I thought would do the trick but doesn't. The only thing that works is purposely breaking the [IMG] tag like this: [.IMG] (as seen in the last pic).

Thanks for your help.

Joe.

Sorry, I don't think it's possible unless a vB admin adds a tag to disable BB Code within other BB Code. E.g.,

Of course, if you don't need the actual link to the image, you can always just do it that ^ way:

~or~

Tim

Thanks Tim. I was coming to the conclusion that it wasn't possible, and your verification saves me from entering my third hour on this problem.

Thanks again, really.

Joe.

Have you tried using the character entities "& #91;" (left square bracket) and "& #93;" (right square bracket) for the opening and closing IMG tags? (Remove the spaces from between the "&" and "#". I'm having my own problem with displaying code without interpretation.) It seems to work so long as you post immediately. If you re-edit the post though, vBulletin "helps" by converting the character entities to square brackets.

Thanks sjgadsby, that's perfect, I'll just make sure I won't need to edit the post later.

The subject of this thread is inaccurate: any chance it's possible for a mod to change it to "Getting [CODE] tags to work around [IMG] tags?"

Thanks again, guys.

Joe.

Ah ha!

Tim