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.

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