Adding images to menus

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  gscobie · Member · Nov 10, 2010 at 9:20 pm

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  How do I add an image to a custom menu? When I try to upload an image, it goes into the body of the page.
  Thanks. Gillian

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · Nov 10, 2010 at 9:55 pm

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  Hi there gscobie,
  You can add images to pages, posts and text widgets but you cannot add them to navigation menus. With custom menus you can customize the tabs appearing in your blog’s navigation menus.Please read the support documentation so you are crystal clear on what a custom menu can and cannot be used for. http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/

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  timethief · Member · Nov 10, 2010 at 9:57 pm

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  It just occurred to me that you may not have any experience with uploading images. Please see this illustrated support documentation entry http://en.support.wordpress.com/images/
  Hope this helps. :)

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  timethief · Member · Nov 10, 2010 at 10:00 pm

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  Okay this is my last guess. You may be trying to add a favicon image AKA a blavatar. If so then please see this entry > http://en.support.wordpress.com/avatars/blavatars/

  WHEW! Please let me know which one you were looking for, okay? :)

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  freythman · Member · Dec 2, 2010 at 11:52 pm

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  It’s pretty simple to add an image to your menu items.

  In the label field, put an <img> tag such as this:

  <img src="location/of/image.png" alt="Link Title" />

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  hallluke · Member · Dec 3, 2010 at 12:40 am

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  Freythman I cannot get this to work as you suggest. It appears that HTML is stripped out of the Custom Menu label field. Could you give an example of this workaround in action?

  As far as I know you would need the CSS upgrade to put images in the navigation menus but I’d love to be wrong.

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  freythman · Member · Dec 3, 2010 at 2:18 pm

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  You know what hallluke, I think I need to stop trolling the wordpress.COM forums, and stick to the wordpress.ORG ones….

  I just realized that this is posted on the .COM forums…

  I tried my own suggestion, and lo and behold, you are correct. I do have a wordpress.ORG blog setup with this functionality, but I was unable to get it to work on a wordpress.COM one.

  My apologies.