moving .gif.... how to save correctly ?

What each part refers to is some part of the complete address specifying where on the internet the file resides, in this case in a directory named "gifs 12_animauxoiseaux" in the "gif" directory at rigolus.com. That actual file name is 000096.gif.

However, that isn't as important as the fact that it is the URL (internet address) of a gif file & not something else, like a web page that references that file in the same way we do here. So, I'm sure your next two questions are:

1) How do you know if it is the URL of a web page or what?
2) How do you extract the URL of the gif (or whatever) from a web page?

Glad you asked! 😉

For #1, you just open the URL with a browser & see what you get. For #2, you can right-click (Control-click with a one button mouse) on the gif image (or whatever) on the web page & a menu pops up with choices to (among other things) copy the image's address to the clipboard. From there you can paste it into your html reference.

But please, now that you know how to do this, don't abuse it. Every graphic added to a post increases the time it takes to download the thread, so you could be making it hard on users with slow internet connections to access Discussions content they need to see. Moderation is the key. 😉

You should copy that file to your own web site and link to it from there. The way you have it now is a direct link back to the web site that provides the gifs. That uses up the bandwidth they pay for everytime someone views your posts.

Jacinthe,

I can't teach you the entire structure of the Internet (in part because I don't understand it all myself!) but I can give you a few tips like I have been that should help with your own research. (Two of my favorite sources are Google & Wikipedia, both of which I think have substantial French functionality.)

URL = "Uniform resource locator" -- this is the generalized name of the specification the internet runs on. It is very powerful. The very first part specifies the protocol (like html = hypertext markup language) of the information contained in the rest of the URL, which is the path to where it lives. It is an address, just like 111 Some Rue; Montreal, Canada, just written in a specific format computers can understand.

A browser accepts some (but not necessarily all) of the protocols & does something with them. For html, it reads the "marked up" text, which contains instructions (like the alignment tag that gave you problems) for how to display other content (like a gif image or text) in a "web page," which it creates according to those instructions.

The tricky part is that some of those instructions may tell the browser to fetch things to display from somewhere else, like the way you tell the browser in your posts to fetch an image, not from Apple Discussions or your computer, but from that French site full of gif images. That web site does the same thing: the web page you look at from that source is made up of (in part) instructions to fetch images from some specific URL (location or address) somewhere else.

So, if you paste the web site's address into the instructions to display your post, the browser would try to display the whole web page where you wanted to display a gif. Apple wisely limits what posts are allowed to support in the way of instructions, recognizes that the URL you referenced isn't a gif, & substitutes the "?" graphic instead.

But if you use the URL of a gif itself, as long as it meets certain tests (I don't know what they are, so don't ask), Discussions happliy will display it.

From here on, you are pretty much on your own. Use Google or similar to search for more in-depth discussions or tutorials. It is a huge subject but there are primers for beginners through very advanced tutorials available online. This should get you started & give you an idea of what to search for next.

I've already answered this, back in this post.

You can't know what someone else's URL points to without checking it, any more than you can know what is at someone's street address without doing the same. I can address a letter to anywhere I want, but that doesn't mean it is a real address or that the post office can deliver it.

At this point, you really need to study the info in the earlier posts & do some independent research. Please don't continue to post experiments here -- this is a place for discussion, not experimentation. Instead, use the test site already mentioned until you get it right -- if it works there, it will work elsewhere.

The test site works if you enter the html commands correctly. If it doesn't, it is because the text you entered has one or more errors -- that is what the site is for, so you can practice until you get it right.

The same site offers tutorials. Try them & see if your understanding doesn't improve. You must be patient & remember that computers are very unforgiving of even small errors.