Embed images

A well-chosen screenshot or image can greatly improve the readability and clarity of a doc. Too many images or an image that's tough to parse can really slow things down.

Read on for more information about how to get an image added to one of our docs.

Here are some things to keep in mind when you're creating an image:

• Make sure your image provides useful information at a glance.
• Include a caption with helpful context for the image.
• For screenshot captions, include the path in bold.
• For video captions, include the approximate running time.

Add an image

Our doc site images are stored in individual images directories at the root level of each taxonomy category. These images directories contain all the images used in the docs for that category.

To add an image from scratch:

1. Find the images directory for your doc. For example, if your docs lives in docs/style-guide/processes-procdures you would use the docs/style-guide/processes-procdures/images directory. If the images directory does not exist, create one in VScode or Finder.
2. Place your image in the images directory. Give the image a descriptive file name: fso-ui-overview.png is much better than 123-go-dawgs.png.
3. Follow the steps below to embed the image in a doc.

Embed an image

Use markdown to embed an image in a doc. The basic structure:

![alt text](PATH_TO_IMAGE "Image title text")`

Here's a filled in example:

![An image showing an overview of the synthetics UI](./images/synthetics-ui-overview.png "Synthetics UI overview")`

Update an image

To update an image:

1. Delete the original image file in the corresponding images directory.
2. Place the new image file in the same images directory.
3. Ensure the image file has the same name as the original file.

Write image captions

Descriptive captions help the reader know why the image matters. If it's a screenshot, it's helpful to include the path in bold in addition to a description. For example:

one.newrelic.com > Dashboards: Quickly create information-dense custom views into the data that matters most to you with dashboards in New Relic One.

For more help with captions and other supporting text around images, see Guidelines for explaining images.

Add an inline image

If you'd like to use an inline image, you'll use something like this:

From the Overview page, select your app's gear `![alt text](PATH_TO_IMAGE "Image title text")` icon.

If the image is being used as an icon, always describe it first. When you embed the icon image, follow the image with the word "icon" in the text. For example, "select your app's gear icon."

Add a fixed width, block level image

Fixed width, block level images are similar in format to full column width images, except the original image width is smaller than the column width (800px) of a page. It's important that you edit the HTML like you would an inline image. This way the image will be rendered at 100% of the column width and also be responsive to smaller screen sizes.

Use these images when a screenshot is a small part of the page with a width of less than 800px, but when it still needs a caption like a full width image.

Here's an example of the HTML for a fixed width, block level image:

<div style="width: 100%; max-width: Npx;">
       <img alt="ALT TEXT" height="X" src="IMG_URL" title="FILENAME" width="N">
    </div>
    
    <div class="dnd-legend-wrapper" style="width: 100%; max-width: Npx;">
       <div class="meta"><p>CAPTION TEXT</p></div>
    </div>

Icons

You can choose from a variety of icons to include in your docs:

• Feather icons (prefixed with 'fe-)

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  Feather icons replace our previous Font Awesome icons.
• New Relic icons (prefixed with nr-)
• Logos for third-party products (prefixed with logo-)

Here are the two places you can look to see if we have the icon you need. If the icons are in either of these locations, you can use them in your documents. At the moment, these locations have separate, non-overlapping buckets of icons (this may change):

• Gatsby theme: This is a subset of Feather, New Relic, and product logo icons that are available across the developer and docs sites.
• Docs site Feather icons: These are the Feather icons available in the docs project but are not included in the Gatsby theme.

Insert icons as tag attributes

If your icon appears as an attribute inside another tag, prefix it with icon as in this example:

<LandingPageTileGrid>
  <LandingPageTile
    title="AWS Lambda"
    href="/docs/serverless-function-monitoring/aws-lambda-monitoring/get-started/monitoring-aws-lambda-serverless-monitoring"
    icon="logo-aws"
  >
</LandingPageTile>

Insert inline icons

If your icon appears inside running text, use the <Icon> component. Here are some examples:

• Feather: <Icon name="fe-database" />
• New Relic:<Icon name="nr-tdp" />
• Logos: <Icon name="logo-apple" />

Install new Feather icons

If you don't see the icon you want in either the Gatsby theme or in the docs site Feather icons, you can add a new icon to the Gatsby theme. Here's an example of adding a "database" icon:

1. Go to feathericons.com.
2. Download the "database" feather icon by clicking on the icon itself.
3. Once downloaded, open the SVG file in your text editor.
4. Grab the "guts" of the SVG, which is everything in between the <svg> tags. For example, if the SVG looks like this: <svg><path m="1"></path></svg>, then you'll grab only the <path m="1"></path> portion.
5. Open the list of feather icons at src/@newrelic/gatsby-theme-newrelic/icons/feather.js.
6. Add an entry for database and assign the code from step #4 to it. This particular icon has multiple paths, so you'll want that <> wrapper around it like you'll see with other icons.
7. Save that feather.js file.

The fe- prefix gets automatically added. Once that icon is added, you can use it with the Icon component, for example, <Icon name="fe-database" />.