[vb50kgpoo]

Hi Lynne

Thanks for the reply and offer of help; I appreciate it, truly. I am not trying to copy and paste text though. I am trying to screen grab a web page and then insert that as an image into a forum post on my vB.

What I am attempting to do is offer my forum users the right to discuss swords listed on eBay and other sales sites. Other forums avoid this because, typically, people post links to an item on eBay or wherever which, as you know, gets auto-deleted by eBay / whoever once the item is sold, and then the forum discussion about that item loses its reference point and becomes a farce.

So, what I wanted to do is to come up with a simple way for users to screen grab the eBay item page as a graphic and then paste it into their forum message on my site. That way the reference is permanent, for all to see no matter how far into the future.

However, when I use "Print Screen / SysRq" to screen grab something and then "Ctrl V" it into the message (as an image) on my forums, it works but not how it is meant to / normally does. Instead of getting a thumb nail image which can then be clicked, what I actually get is yards and yards of code which, even if I could post it (I can't, because the amount of code exceeds the character maximum set for posts), I would not want to.

What I want is to screen grab from another site and then insert that image into my post as an image (displayed as a clickable thumbnail, the same as when you upload an image).

Regards / thanks / RSVP
Suci