Insert an Image in a Yahoo! Email

Yahoo! Mail only provide attachment tool to give they users ability to send any image. But, if you want to insert an image in a Yahoo! email, you can't just insert it from your hard drive as an inline into the body of the message.

In order to get it to display within the message text, you have to copy and paste the image from a web server. If you don't already have the image on a web server, you can use a free image hosting site. Once you know how to do it, it's a snap to add an image to a Yahoo! email.

This is how to insert an image in a Yahoo! Email instructions step by step:

1. Upload the image to a web server. You can use your own, or use the free one, for example www.imageshack.us.
2. Open your Yahoo! Mail account, make New Message (Compose) or Reply from a message that you want to reply it.
3. Make sure to use Rich Text Formatting in Yahoo! mail. Otherwise you won't be able to get it to display properly. Most likely your account is set to use rich text automatically. When you click on the "Compose" button to start a new message, there is underlined text below (for new Yahoo! Mail on the right side) the subject box and next to the "Attach files" button. This just toggles the setting between rich text and plain text. If it says "Plain Text", then it is already set to rich text and clicking on "Plain Text" will toggle it to plain text. If it says "Rich Text," then click on it to set it to use rich text.
4. Go to the web page containing the image. Highlight the image with your cursor so that the image is shaded. Copy and paste it directly into the body of the email where you want the image to be seen. It will display the image itself in the email you are sending. If it displays only the URL, it didn't work and you should try it again. Make sure to highlight only the image itself and copy and paste it with your keyboard commands. Done.

Tips & Warning:

1. If this technique doesn't work, you can copy the URL where the image resides and paste that into your post.
2. Yahoo! Mail also allows previewing of attached images without downloading them.
3. If the image only showing the thumbnail, you can try to preview it first in your browser by copy-paste the direct url. Then, you can copy the image opened there.