Feature request : ability to upload images and insert them right away in new messages

[tcharlss]

• Gitea version: 1.12.1
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Description

Say you're typing a new message and you want to insert an image in the text, ie. ![](path/to/my/image.jpg).
You want the image to be hosted on the gitea server, so you upload it via the widget at the bottom.

Problem is, after the upload you don't have access to the URL of the image, so you can't insert it yet.
You first have to submit the message, than only are you able to copy the image URL by inspecting the attached files, edit the message, and finally insert it.

It would be nice if the upload widget displayed the files URL, that way it could be done right away.
Well, that is, if the widget uploads the files directly and not after the message is submitted, I'm not entirely sure how it works :)

[tcharlss]

And here's a screenshot of the widget, just to be clear: we can only see the file name, not the full path on the server, so at this stage it is impossible to insert the image in text yet.

[davidak]

This is actually one of the biggest issues i have with Gitea!

I want to have the images next to the text where i explain what is wrong and actually display them in the browser (not just their name).

It should just work as on GitHub, that is perfect. Drag and drop them into the text where you want to have them.

Here is an example why it's currently bad:

GitHub: davidak/test#1
Imported to Gitea: https://try.gitea.io/davidak/1/issues/1
Native Gitea: https://try.gitea.io/davidak/1/issues/2 (7 images i have added to the issue are actually missing)

[r10r]

I'll second that! That would improve usability a lot, since attaching images is a very common task.

[HammyHavoc]

Would love to be able to do this. Would make reporting bugs during game dev requiring a sequence of images to demonstrate the issue much more easily understood within the context of the description for each step to replicate it.

[shalak]

I believe this feature is already present in Gitea Version: 1.17.3, is it not?

[shalak]

Huh, I noticed that it does work then creating a PR or adding a new comment. But with replying to existing comment - it doesn't work... Anybody else has this issue?

[zeripath]

@shalak could you show us a screenshot?

[shalak]

@shalak could you show us a screenshot?

Huh, apologies, I was mistaken - it appears that the pasting images directly from clipboard works in PRs for comments in "Conversation" (e.g. https://gitea.mydomain.com/user/repo/pulls/1), but does not work in the "Files Changed" page (e.g. https://gitea.mydomain.com/user/repo/pulls/1/files)

But that applies not only to pasting from clipboard, but for attaching images overall.