Hi ,
what do I have to do to be able to insert external smilies into my posts?

The smiles are at the bottom of the message response box, just select one and it should appear after the cursor

I think Rena knows how to add those since she did use the in her question.
What do you mean by "external"? Off you phone?

I think Hamwild's answer is correct. The , etc are NGA's internal emojis.

That little smiley to the right of the Finished box pulls up the same kind of menu found on cell phones.😋🙃✋

Calif_Sue said: I think Rena know how to add those since she did use the in her question.
What do you mean by "external"? Off you phone?

Exactly, of course I can use the smilies from this site . Thanks Sue
I don't know how to upload some from the internet . When I use photo upload they don't display properly .
Or is that perhaps not possible here?

I'm not sure I understand uploading an "emoji."

Is it maybe one that is animated?

Emojis are all those little faces and symbols that you use all the time, that you are calling smileys. They don't have to be animated.

e·mo·ji
/iˈmōjē/
noun
a small digital image or icon used to express an idea, emotion, etc.
"emoji liven up your text messages with tiny smiley faces"

Yes, we can't use them here, just like we can't add video clips.
I can add extra emojis beyond what's listed here directly from my cell phone 🌺 or that drop down menu next to the Finished button but if any are animated, they won't show that way.

It probably depends on where the emoji you want to use comes from, but it will undoubtedly end up being uploaded as an image, and the system takes over what happens to all images at that point.

Here's a site, Emoji Copy-Paste, you can just click on what you want and that action puts it in your clipboard, then just hit Ctrl-V to paste it into the text box and will look like this (this is actually the most user-friendly option I've found):
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But most times you'll right click to copy an image, paste it here and the system automatically enlarges it, plus any animated .gif image would be lost, background transparency would also be lost, so it would look (horrid and annoying) like this:


Even if you have the direct url to the image and use the [ img ] bbc code, it still ends up the same way, enlarged as a .jpg. If you give us an example of what emoji or where it would come from, might be able to give a better answer, but it's not very likely it'll work here with how the site handles images.

Murky said:
But most times you'll right click to copy an image, paste it here and the system automatically enlarges it, plus any animated .gif image would be lost, background transparency would also be lost, so it would look (horrid and annoying) like this:


Even if you have the direct url to the image and use the [ img ] bbc code, it still ends up the same way, enlarged as a .jpg. If you give us an example of what emoji or where it would come from, might be able to give a better answer, but it's not very likely it'll work here with how the site handles images.

Thanks Nancy , that's the problem .
Then unfortunately these are of no use here.
http://wuerziworld.adbt2.ath.c...

I had never noticed that little smiley face next to the "Finished" box.

Same here - but I wouldn't care to use them (just had a peek), because they are not as nice as the ones we've got right here!