images disappear when I save draft

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    letsplaymath · Member ·

    I am writing a long blog post with many images for my blog:
    http://letsplaymath.wordpress.com/

    When I save the draft, it deletes my images. The line which had read (for example):
    <img src="http://letsplaymath.wordpress.com/files/2009/12/dancers.png"/>
    Changes itself to:
    <img />

    The images are still in my media file, but they refuse to stay in my post.

    I have already tried the following: Change browsers (tried both IE and Firefox), clear cache, delete cookies, reboot computer, disable browser addons. None of those made any difference. Any suggestions?

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

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    dcrage · Member ·

    Try using the Visual editor. Alternately, after inputting the HTML, change to Visual and see if your image appears immediately (it should if you entered the HTML right).

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    letsplaymath · Member ·

    Hey, that worked! (At least for now.) I wonder why it would save differently in the Visual Editor and in the HTML Editor. I have never had the HTML Editor strip images in this way in the past. And here I thought the thing that set computers apart from people was that they were logical and consistent!

    Oh, well, I’m back to revise the post one more time, and then *hopefully* to publish it with images intact.

    Thanks!!!

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    letsplaymath · Member ·

    Whew! It is still working. Here is the post, if anyone is interested:
    http://letsplaymath.wordpress.com/2009/12/11/pre-algebra-problem-solving-4th-grade/

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    panaghiotisadam · Member ·

    Your image codes are stripped out because they are not correct: there should be a space between the closing quote and the slash.

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    letsplaymath · Member ·

    Hm. The codes are what wordpress put in when I clicked the “insert in post” button. I didn’t write them by hand. (I don’t know enough to do that!) So is it a glitch in wordpress.com?

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    letsplaymath · Member ·

    I went back and created a temporary draft to test this. When I manually added a space, all my images stayed nicely where they belonged — nothing disappeared. So now I guess the question is, why would the media upload/insert doohickey leave out that space when writing the image into my post?

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