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Hello all,

I can't believe I'm posting such a basic question after so many years in the Canvas Community.  Recently, and for the first time, I tried to embed some images when posting some new ideas to Idea Conversations.  First I uploaded the images as attachments.   Then I right clicked on the attachment links to get the URLs. Then I pasted the URL into the Source field of the Insert Image function in the editor, but that doesn't seem to work.  I also tried hand editing the HTML with an 
 tag to no avail.  What am I doing wrong?

greydon · Accepted Answer

Hello @leward

You should be able to upload the images  as  attachments  beneath your post. There is a small red cloud that says "drag and drop here or browse files to attach" This is the easiest way to get images from your computer to your post. After attaching, when you hit reply they will be underneath your post for users to see. If you want to use the insert photos option you can, but the image URL link needs to be one already online - not from the image you are attaching to your post. Or you can forego the URL and also just upload the images via the insert photos icon and hit "done" afterwards. Hopefully this helps!

Chris_Hofer · Accepted Answer

Hi @leward ...

Whenever I reply to folks here in the Community and want to include images along with my responses, I use the camera icon (between the smiley face and the video icon) to insert my images.  A large box appears on my screen, and I click on the red "Choose Files" button.  Then, I select the image from my laptop I want to include in my response.  On the right hand side, I can choose a size and a position, but I normally just hit the "Done" button.  Then, the image is embedded in my response...similar to this:

Hope this helps a bit!