Well, it’s about time. You no longer have to use workarounds to put images into your messages or attach images when you really want to inline them. Just turn on “Inserting images” from the Labs tab under Settings in while in Gmail inbox, and you’ll see a new toolbar icon like this:
And then…
Make sure you’re in rich formatting mode, or it won’t show up. Click the little image icon, and you can insert images in two ways: by uploading image files from your computer or providing image URLs.
Keep in mind that Gmail doesn’t show URL-based images in messages by default to protect you from spammers, so if you’re sending mail to other Gmail users, they’ll still have to click “Display images below“ or “Always display images from …” to see images you embed.
[via Official Gmail blog]
[tags]gmail, google, inline images, attachments, mail, email, inbox, gmail labs, tweaks[/tags]
April 13, 2009
This is a great blog. I’m happy to comment.
April 24, 2009
THANK YOU, THANK YOU. Yahoo has had this ability (I believe) for some time and I was wondering when it would come to Gmail!
Regards, SB
February 1, 2012
ok this may sound dumb but how do I get rich formatting ? and what is it ?
February 1, 2012
ah never mind I got it .my insert an image button is a lot different than one you have .Thanks I really needed this