How can I get a picture to show when I do a link (website) status update?

**billyd** · 01-21-2012, 03:34 PM

So every time I paste my link to my site for a status update, I wait a few seconds for the image to appear and never does. I have images on my site (not too many in the root folder). I was wondering if folks have experience with this and what needs to work to show it?

**billyd** · 01-21-2012, 07:20 PM

I found a solution if everyone cares. You need to do designate it a src AND have it in a <header>. Cannot be <head> has to be called <header>. Jeez Facebook.

**fattachelli** · 01-22-2012, 01:14 AM

If its on an external page you can also use a meta property in your header with the open graph protocol

<meta property="og:image" content="IMAGE LINK" />

this way when a user likes or shares it will show the proper pictures

**billyd** · 01-22-2012, 08:55 AM

Yeah. The problem is the meta has to be in the div header. Mine was in head and couldn't figure it out

Just something in case people ran into errors.

**μελαγχολία** · 01-22-2012, 10:10 AM

Meta tags have to be in the <head> tag... there's no <header> tag or header div (divs are an entirely different thing)... I guess there's something deeply wrong with your HTML code