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Well, it works but requires the user to click a button. Far from being trivial or elegant. Better host it somewhere and use <img> markup as suggested by others.
– Shadow Wizard
Commented Jan 31, 2016 at 8:44
@ShadowWizard Good point, I've updated the answer to explain why you might want to do this, despite the other methods having such an advantage.
– Robert Longson
Commented Jan 31, 2016 at 8:52
Could you provide a working example?
– Craig McQueen
Commented Apr 28, 2016 at 2:27
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Stack Snippets aren't enabled on all sites, so this is even more limited than one might suppose.
– Nathan Tuggy
Commented Apr 28, 2016 at 8:06

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like so
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