![]() Selecting the image you want and clicking the "Insert selected" button will embed your selected image into the content area.Īt first glance, this appears to have done the same as the image upload, but there is more going on behind the scenes. The media embed button is a combination of a picture and musical note, to signify that it provides more functionality. This includes the ability to have an administrative interface for media and the use of an interface for selecting media for fields and text content. Since Drupal version 8.8 the Media Library module has been a stable part of core and this builds upon the Media module. Installing this module will allow you to manage media, but it doesn't cover embedding media into content. Instead of managing files, you manage files stored in Drupal entities, which means that they can be used and reused around the site as many times as you like. ![]() The Media module comes bundled with Drupal and has been stable since version 8.6. IMCE does this by providing access to the files directory from your web browser, but you can (and should!) add permissions and security to lock down how IMCE is configured. This module has a drop-in replacement for the file upload dialog in CKEditor that will allow users to upload or select from the existing files on your site. I should note that some of these issues regarding permissions and file re-use can be solved by using the Drupal IMCE module. This means that if the page is unpublished then the image will still be available to view. Image uploads aren't controlled by permissions.Drupal can report on usage information about the files, but since this is usually a one-to-one link between image and content item this isn't that useful.No image styles are used to render the image so you either need to ensure your site styles will cope with the image or just upload the image at the correct resolution.In fact, the best solution to this is often to upload the image again when it is required on another item of content. Images can't easily be used across pages of content.Migration is simple as the content directly references the images.Drupal stores some usage information on where the image is embedded on the site.Generates simple markup in your content pages.Let's look at the pros and cons of this approach. That's pretty much all there is to it for the image upload feature. This is a good option to have, but you need to make sure your theme supports it otherwise it will not look tidy with the image. There is also the option to add a caption to the image, which adds a figcaption HTML element below the image. This HTML will look a little like the following. Once the upload is complete Drupal will create some HTML that it will embed into your content area. It also keeps a record of where that file was uploaded to the system, in this case an item of content, which allows for some simple content tracking. It has uploaded your file to the web server and written a record to the database so that it can manage that file. Looking behind the scenes Drupal has actually done a couple of things here. When you have selected your image and clicked "Save" the dialog will close and your image will be visible in the content area. When you go to create some content on the site you will see the CKEditor dialog with the Image button present in the tools at the top of the editor window. This is part of the CKEditor module in Drupal and the standard install profile will create a text format that will allow you to use this straight away. If you have installed Drupal using the standard install profile (which is quite a common thing to do) then you will already have the Image Upload feature installed. Since the image upload and media library approaches have slightly different pros and cons I thought I would look into each one. After the release of Drupal 9these modules have become a go-to solution for embedding images into content. When the Media module and subsequent Media Library modules became stable in Drupal 8.8 it was then possible to embed all types of media into content, not just images. Since Drupal 8 and the inclusion of CKEditor into core it has been possible to embed images into content. It normally required the inclusion of a few modules to get things working and usually meant having a very customised experience. Uploading images into content in previous versions of Drupal was a bit hit and miss. ![]() I previously talked specifically about SVG images and Drupal 9, but how about embedding other images? They can be used to explain points or to liven up an otherwise dull-looking page that would have been a wall of text. ![]() ![]() Content is significantly improved with embedded images. ![]()
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