How to show local picture in web page?

Question

I need to show a picture on web page without uploading it. something like

Answer 1

Linking to local image files from remote HTML files used to be possible, but no longer is.

• In Firefox since version 1.5 (background and config options here)

• In Internet Explorer I think since Version 8 (I believe I have successfully done this in IE 7, but I can't find hard data)

• In Chrome probably since forever

See for example this vulnerability report for why this is a good thing.

I don't think there is a workaround. You will just have to upload the image first.