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Hi there,

I was wondering why, when editing an entry and then clicking on “preview”, the images do not show up. I had a closer look, and saw that it had the “{site_url}” inside the URL, so not passing it through the generator (the template?).

I guess what this means is that I shouldn’t use these “parameters” within the entries then?

Thanks for a hint.

Stef

As a rule, EE tags are meant to go in templates, yes, not entries.

Ok, thanks for the clarification.

But how comes that, when taking the “{site_url}” away, it still opens the images… and it uses the “system” folder within the URL whereas it shouldn’t? The image is here: URL/themes/images/image.png, but the Preview looks for it here: URL/system/themes/images/image.png

Using EE tags within entries can have unpredictable results. It certainly isn’t guaranteed to work. I suppose what happens is that, if you take away the {site_url}, your browser will treat the link as a relative one and search for the images in subdirectories of the current URL. As long as you are in your controlpanel, that is “system” (and images won’t be found), but on your published page the search starts at the root of the site, and thus finds the image folder.

Try preceding it with a slash, ie using something like

<a href="/images/foobar.png" alt="" height="" width="">

to make it show up in both preview and published view.

Great. Works. Thanks a lot!