WSYIWG editor won't display pictures

[lilpenny1316]

I'm helping a guy with his mailing list software called DirektMail by SiteControl. There are two sections, one which allows you to post your code and another to preview it. When I post the code, everything look normal, but when I look in the preview section, all the images are gone and the style sheet at the top of the document appears to not be used.

When I went back to where I posted the code, that's where I noticed forward slashes in front of all the quotation marks. I tried removing the quotation marks but the forward slashes came back and the quotation marks were reinserted. Does anyone have a clue as to what the problem may be?

Thanks

[mairving]

Most likely a relative path vs. full path issue.

A picture or a stylesheet in an email should be linked like so:
<img src="http://sitename.com/images/imagename.jpg>
which is the full path to the image and will display correctly as long as their is a picture there.

It is common and a little faster processing to do images on a website something like this:
<img src="/images/imagename.jpg>
which is a relative path. This looks for images in a subfolder of the root domain (sitename.com). If you send out an email with the relative path in it, it won't find the pictures since it doesn't know what domain to use.

So use the full path and it should work fine. Also you should note that AOL, MSN and some others don't process stylesheets effectively. So I would make sure that the page will display okay without the stylesheet as well.