Add Insert Image dialog from XML Author/Editor to WebAuthor
Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2025 10:50 am
In standalone Oxygen, the Insert Image action opens a dialog where you can select an image file, add a title and define relevant attributes:
However, in WebAuthor, a much simpler version is implemented: People are using WebAuthor as primary editing tool more and more. Therefore it would be great if we could have the same functionality in WebAuthor as we have in standalone. The use cases would be to a) be able to add a title so that the image gets automatically wrapped in a figure and b) to set some attributes like width. This would greatly help authors that are not DITA and XML experts and currently might have a hard time inserting images the way it is expected.
Depending on whether you add a title, a <fig> element with an <image> is created or only an <image> element. This logic works great in nearly all cases. However, in WebAuthor, a much simpler version is implemented: People are using WebAuthor as primary editing tool more and more. Therefore it would be great if we could have the same functionality in WebAuthor as we have in standalone. The use cases would be to a) be able to add a title so that the image gets automatically wrapped in a figure and b) to set some attributes like width. This would greatly help authors that are not DITA and XML experts and currently might have a hard time inserting images the way it is expected.