# Turn off image preview in a topic/reply

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/turn-off-image-preview-in-a-topic-reply/123898
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [July 24, 2019, 10:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/turn-off-image-preview-in-a-topic-reply/123898 "2019-07-24T22:55:12Z")
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### Author: ![johnny.duguid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/johnny.duguid/32/139193_2.png) [@johnny.duguid](https://meta.discourse.org/u/johnny.duguid)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2019, 10:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/turn-off-image-preview-in-a-topic-reply/123898/1 "2019-07-24T22:55:12Z")

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👋 Occasionally we have a discussion where many images are part of the post, but they’re more for reference vs needing to be seen inline. (And sometimes the inline preview just gets in the way.)

In these cases, having a clickable link to the image would be preferred.

Can you disable or override the thumbnail preview to do so?

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2019, 10:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/turn-off-image-preview-in-a-topic-reply/123898/2 "2019-07-24T22:58:14Z")

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The standard way to do that is to make it a link. Since oneboxing requires the link to be on a line by itself, just make sure that image link is _not_ on a line by itself. Like so:

hey check out this image [Imgur: The magic of the Internet](https://i.imgur.com/ATjrtnT.jpg)

or

[Imgur: The magic of the Internet](https://i.imgur.com/ATjrtnT.jpg) here’s an image!

You can use a leading space if you don’t want actual text, like so

[Imgur: The magic of the Internet](https://i.imgur.com/ATjrtnT.jpg)

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### Author: ![johnny.duguid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/johnny.duguid/32/139193_2.png) [@johnny.duguid](https://meta.discourse.org/u/johnny.duguid)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2019, 11:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/turn-off-image-preview-in-a-topic-reply/123898/3 "2019-07-24T23:03:18Z")

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That was the best option I was seeing and wanted to confirm. Thanks!

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### Author: ![system](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/system/32/443519_2.png) [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2019, 11:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/turn-off-image-preview-in-a-topic-reply/123898/4 "2019-08-23T23:03:21Z")

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