Text Chat - Basic Formatting (Dragable Images)

With the new Update, we've been provided some limited MarkDown formatting in the Text Chat bar <a href="https://wiki.roll20.net/Text_Chat#Basic_Formatting" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.roll20.net/Text_Chat#Basic_Formatting</a> With that, comes the ability to directly link and display graphics. Image [Roll20 Logo]( <a href="http://roll20.net/assets/themes/roll20/images/new-logo-white-sm.png" rel="nofollow">http://roll20.net/assets/themes/roll20/images/new-logo-white-sm.png</a> SUGGESTION: Make Images Displayed in Text Chat Dragable to the Map ♦ Allows players to help provide images for tokens, monsters, graphics, etc that come up during gameplay ,♦♦ Avoids cumbersome Character Portrait &gt; Map routine ♦♦ Let's GM choose whether or not to put the image on the map, as players cannot delete an image they've placed, currently. ♦ Opens the possibilities of Spell Shape templates to be combined with spell macros ♦♦ Example: &gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt; &gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt; Were the image dragable to the map, it would allow the GM or player to predefine spell shapes rather than drawing them directly on the map.

Very nice Suggestion write-up and graphical example. I hope this comes to pass!

Mark, I'm glad you made this available much easier than requiring an API script as before. Big questions: I have seen examples of images in chats, but what is the syntax? Is Image a keyword? What goes in the [brackets]? [Roll20 Logo] is not a keyword, I assume. Where are the filenames kept because none of the links in Roll20 have format file extensions. They are encrypted into something else that is not recognized. -Falsoon

Basic Formatting (for those that haven't seen it): <a href="https://wiki.roll20.net/Text_Chat#Basic_Formatting" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.roll20.net/Text_Chat#Basic_Formatting</a> What is in the brackets is a description of the image, which will be used as the Alt property of the &lt;img&gt; tag. This is important if you have players that are using screen readers for the chat, but can otherwise be filled in with just about anything (including just a space). For displaying images that end in something other than .png, .jpg, .jpeg, .gif (like your Roll20 Image Library URLs), you can append a fragment identifier that does end in one of those: [ ](<a href="http://some.img.server.com/some/url?img=1dakjfaslkdfjk" rel="nofollow">http://some.img.server.com/some/url?img=1dakjfaslkdfjk</a> #.png ) The Roll20 chat tokenizer/parser uses the ending of a URL to determine if it will display it as an image. Adding the fragment identifier tells it that the URL is actually an image, even though it doesn't look like one. The format you choose doesn't have to match what the actual image format is, as the browser will display it correctly based on the image data. ( Pro Tip: This allows you to display images in formats that aren't actually detected by the tokenizer/parser, such as SVGs: [ ](<a href="http://foo.bar.com/baz/qux.svg" rel="nofollow">http://foo.bar.com/baz/qux.svg</a> #.png ) )

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