IMAGE

Inserts an image into a cell.

Important: You can only use URLs that aren’t hosted at drive.google.com. SVG file format isn’t supported.

Volatility restrictions: you cannot directly or indirectly reference a volatile function in the base URL, the consistent part of the website’s address, of the IMAGE function.

• NOW(), RAND(), RANDARRAY(), RANDBETWEEN() are examples of volatile functions.

Sample Usage

IMAGE("https://www.google.com/images/srpr/logo3w.png")

IMAGE(A2,2)

IMAGE(A2,4,120,200)

Syntax

IMAGE(url, [mode], [height], [width])

• url - The URL of the image, including protocol (e.g. http://).

  • The value for url must either be enclosed in quotation marks or be a reference to a cell containing the appropriate text.

• mode - [ OPTIONAL - 1 by default ] - The sizing mode for the image

  • 1 resizes the image to fit inside the cell, maintaining aspect ratio.
  • 2 stretches or compresses the image to fit inside the cell, ignoring aspect ratio.
  • 3 leaves the image at original size, which may cause cropping.
  • 4 allows the specification of a custom size.
  • Note that no mode causes the cell to be resized to fit the image.

• height - [ OPTIONAL ] - The height of the image in pixels. mode must be set to 4 in order to set a custom height.

• width - [ OPTIONAL ] - The width of the image in pixels. mode must be set to 4 in order to set a custom width.

Examples

Inserts an image inside of a cell.

Related resources

• Learn more about Import functions