Permies.com ignoring BBcode/HTML tags

Hiya,

I want to link an image from another site but it's ridiculously big. So me, being lazy, thought I'd use my very rusty coding knowledge to inline resize the image in HTML

<img src="https://www.tripsavvy.com/thmb/QtkeVP-GCHGQq1a3lYev8cpgcm8=/2121x1414/filters:fill(auto,1)/GettyImages-542124028-59efc648c412440011deb3b2.jpg" alt="Manhatten Bridge walkway" width="212" height="141">

That displays the image (when I enable HTML in my posts) but doesn't resize it.

When that didn't work, I searched for BBcode options and, according to BBCode.org, tried
[img=212x141]https://www.tripsavvy.com/thmb/QtkeVP-GCHGQq1a3lYev8cpgcm8=/2121x1414/filters:fill(auto,1)/GettyImages-542124028-59efc648c412440011deb3b2.jpg[/img]
and then


Neither of which display anything.

I had a quick nosy around coderanch to see if there was more info about the bbcode implementation that Paul uses and couldn't find anything relevant.

Is there a list somewhere of what html and bbcode tags permies.com honours please?

HTML is really tricky.  I suspect the option to post in pointy bracket code is mostly there so we can catch spammers easier.  Most of the time it breaks the page.  

There should be an easy way to resize with the bb code.  I just got to figure out where the tutorial is.

test

This did the trick

[img]https://www.tripsavvy.com/thmb/QtkeVP-GCHGQq1a3lYev8cpgcm8=/2121x1414/filters:fill(auto,1)/GettyImages-542124028-59efc648c412440011deb3b2.jpg width=400[/img]

and the tutorial
https://permies.com/wiki/52623/formatting-tags-permies-posts-awesome#426719

Well that's embarrassing... Thanks R! I found that help page and completely skipped the important bit. I need to remember the 2 ears, one mouth rule.

So, set the width after the URI and let the software sort out the height.

(I swear that image that appeared in my first post, didn't appear in the preview!!!)

Maybe there's a reason I'm off work ill the moment, my brain clearly isn't functioning.

Thanks again R, I'll go back to my knitting.

I've long suspected that  the preview doesn't 'see' all the BB code.  For example, it ignores hr (horizontal line)

[hr]

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^like this ^