Hello all, i think having the possibility to add image in the HTML file for the help section (data-help-name) would be a nice feature by using the HTML img marking for example. Sometime word can't explain everything and an image could be usefull.

Of course but this is a feature request. The other post is more a way around.

There is not really a need for a new feature since this is easily dealt with using existing capabilities.

The question is if each node has to create its own admin endpoint just to display an image or if there is not an easy way out of the box of node-red for that. Maybe that automatically image files (png, svg, jpg, gif) will be served by the server a specific directory of the node.

[image] Hypnos: The question is if each node has to create its own admin endpoint just to display an image or if there is not an easy way out of the box of node-red for that. Well, there is a build in method (sort of) in that any custom node can add a static folder to serve things from, no ne…

Or as was mentioned in the linked discussion you can inline images with base64 encoding or svg - so no endpoint needed.

There has long been a need to do something in this area - ever since Ben published his Geofence node in the very early days of NR and asked how to include the leaflet.js libraries in the editor. So this isn't limited to just images in the help. Adding an endpoint is a work around to the fact we don…

Well that would be interesting and a nice addition to Node-RED though given that it is relatively easy to add to a custom node anyway, I would have to wonder how far up the priority tree it should be? Messing with uibuilder v2 has certainly given me a decent appreciation of how to do this and I'm c…

[image] TotallyInformation: I would have to wonder how far up the priority tree it should be? Well, Ben published his geofence node ~5 years ago which first raised the question. So no, it hasn't been far up the list. But there are countless small things on the backlog that are not high priori…

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