# Adding Observations to Journal Posts

**URL:** <https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/adding-observations-to-journal-posts/35631>\
**Category:** General\
**Tags:** question\
**Created:** [September 18, 2022, 12:14am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/adding-observations-to-journal-posts/35631 "2022-09-18T00:14:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![phil86315](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/phil86315/32/29890_2.png) [@phil86315](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/phil86315)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2022, 12:14am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/adding-observations-to-journal-posts/35631/1 "2022-09-18T00:14:36Z")

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I’m attempting to add observations to Journal Posts. I am using Safari as my browser. When I select the observation from the right-side panel, nothing happens in the post when I Preview it.

I tried using the HTML code snips from @karoopixie and I get an error (little box with a ? mark).

Is this a browser-related issue?

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**Author:** ![karoopixie](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/karoopixie/32/69882_2.png) [@karoopixie](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/karoopixie)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2022, 7:02am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/adding-observations-to-journal-posts/35631/2 "2022-09-18T07:02:52Z")

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Hi @phil86315 , welcome to the forum :-)

It would help if you gave us a link to your journal post (if you’ve published it and it’s not still in draft form). And to show us the code you’ve used to link.

I suspect that you are trying to link an _observation_ rather than a _photo_ from the observation. I have not tried linking observations myself so I don’t know how that works, but it will show something different to a link to a specific photo, I imagine.

My post on embedding photos and sounds into journal posts is here - [Adding photos & sounds to journal posts](https://www.inaturalist.org/journal/karoopixie/21170-adding-photos-and-sounds-to-journal-posts)

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**Author:** ![phil86315](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/phil86315/32/29890_2.png) [@phil86315](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/phil86315)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2022, 5:12pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/adding-observations-to-journal-posts/35631/3 "2022-09-18T17:12:43Z")

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That’s it! I was trying to link to the observation. I linked to the photo and, voila! Thanks so much.  
[https://www.inaturalist.org/posts/70093-adding-images-to-posts-leptinotarsa-rubignosa](https://www.inaturalist.org/posts/70093-adding-images-to-posts-leptinotarsa-rubignosa)

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**Author:** ![karoopixie](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.inaturalist.org/karoopixie/32/69882_2.png) [@karoopixie](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/karoopixie)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2022, 5:19pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/adding-observations-to-journal-posts/35631/4 "2022-09-18T17:19:12Z")

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Super! Well done :-)

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**Post date:** [November 17, 2022, 5:20pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/adding-observations-to-journal-posts/35631/5 "2022-11-17T17:20:01Z")

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