How to Post Color Ads With Pictures on Craigslist

Craigslist supports simple HTML formatting in many of its ad categories. Where basic HTML formatting is allowed, you can use color in the words of your ads and post pictures in the ads. Supported colors are black, blue, green, navy, purple, red, olive, fuchsia, teal and maroon. Although you cannot upload pictures directly to Craigslist, you can link to a picture on another website using the HTML <img> tag, and it will appear in your ad.

Instructions

Posting Color Ads

1. Type your ad as you normally would. nsert HTML color code around the words words you would like to be colored. For example, type "<font color="red">" before the words you want colored red and "</font>" after those words. Replace "red" in this example with any of the supported colors, such as "blue", "green," etc.

2. Make words even more colorful by making them bold by typing "<b>" and "</b>" tags around the word.

3. Make words bigger using the "<big>" and "</big>" tags around the words.

4. Change words to an italic font by using the "<i>" and "</i>" tags around the words.

5. Use multiple tags around the same words by treating them like bookends. Close the tags in the mirror image to how you open them. For example, to make the word "Craigslist" red, big, bold, type "<font color="red"><big><b>Craigslist</b></big></font>" in your ad.

Posting Pictures in Ads

1. Locate a picture on the Internet that you want to use for a picture. Make sure you have permission to link to the image. If you have your own website, you can upload a picture there. You can also use free image websites like Flickr, Tweetpic or Picasa to upload your own photos.

2. Copy the link to the picture. You can usually do this by clicking on a picture so that only it appears in the Web browser, then highlight the code in the address field of your browser. Alternatively, you can right-click on a picture in your Web browser, and click "Copy Image Location."

3. Paste the link to the picture into the description field of your Craigslist ad by pressing "Ctrl" and "V" on the keyboard.

4. Put quotation marks around the link. Type the HTML image code around the link so it appears as "<img src="http://www.website.com/pictures/picture.jpg" alt="description">" for example. Replace the link in this example with your own. Replace "description" with a word to describe your picture for the visually impaired or in case the link is not accessible for some visitors to your ad.

References

• Craigslist: Help: Pictures
• Craigslist: Help: HTML in Craigslist Postings