{"id":19035036,"date":"2026-10-02T15:05:28","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T15:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/forum-image-embed-issue-invalid-data-uri\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T15:23:42","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T15:23:42","slug":"forum-image-embed-issue-invalid-data-uri","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/forum-image-embed-issue-invalid-data-uri\/","title":{"rendered":"Forum image embed issue &#8211; invalid data URI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When adding images through forum block editor by copy pasting, the image can get invalid data URI, and image fails to load. In these cases, it seems that the &#8220;data:&#8221; part of the URI is missing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Happened to me when I reported style issue with plugin: <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/floating-cookie-buttons-icon-looks-small-with-some-themes\/\">https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/floating-cookie-buttons-icon-looks-small-with-some-themes\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If the message of the report is inspected, there is a &#8220;wp-block-paragraph&#8221; element with embedded image like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>&lt;img src=&#8221;image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGg&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The correct URI should start with &#8220;data:&#8221;, i.e.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>&lt;img src=&#8221;data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGg&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Testing if it happens again here too:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/620b8f22-5e32-4f63-bbd7-079243ca1c54\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-19035036","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/19035036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/19035036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19035061,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/19035036\/revisions\/19035061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19035036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}