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How can I add images, videos, and hyperlinks to my guidelines?
How can I add images, videos, and hyperlinks to my guidelines?

Insert visual media and links into your organization's guidelines using our text editor.

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Written by Pam English
Updated over 5 months ago

Submittable enables you to add video, images, and hyperlinks to your organization's General Guidelines and a Project's General Settings with a user-friendly text editor. The text editor is a What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) tool so that what you see in the text editor will reflect how it appears in your guidelines.

  • Your account's general guidelines can be found by clicking More>Account>General Guidelines.

  • Your project's general settings can be found by clicking Projects>[Project Name]>General Settings.

Adding an Image to Your Guidelines

In the text editor for your General Guidelines or Project Guidelines, click on the image icon:

You will see a dropdown box asking you to enter an image URL and alt text for the image:

Adding an Image URL and Alt Text

  1. Open a web browser and choose the image you would like to use from a live webpage. Please make sure you have the rights to use this image. If the image isn’t located online you can use the steps below that address using Google Drive to host and share your image.

  2. Right-click on the image and select Copy Image Address (or the equivalent, depending on your web browser).

  3. Paste the image address into the Image URL textbox.

  4. The Alt Text box enables you to include a description of your image which helps ensure your guidelines are as accessible as possible.

  5. Click the Add button and your image will appear in the guidelines area.

  6. Click Update Profile or Save Project to save your changes.

Adding a Video to Your Guidelines

In the text editor for your guidelines, click on the video icon.

You will see a dropdown box asking you to enter a video URL.

Paste your video URL into the text box and click the Add button. Click Update Profile or Save Form to save your changes.

Adding a Hyperlink to Your Guidelines

  1. Enter the text that you want to hyperlink into the body of your guidelines, then highlight it.

  2. In the WYSIWYG text editor for your General Guidelines or Project Guidelines, click on the link icon.

The following text box will appear:

Enter the URL for the link you want to include and click Enter. Click Update Profile or Save Project to save your changes.

Using Google Drive to Host and Share Your Images

To display your image, you will need to use a specific link.

  1. Obtain the share link. Example:

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tHxniRedAypZ-mN7coRERumJv7NBSoU2/view?usp=sharing

  2. Cut out the File ID which is the string between "d/" and "/view?". In this example, the File ID is:

    1tHxniRedAypZ-mN7coRERumJv7NBSoU2

  3. Add the File ID to the end of this link:

    https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/d/

  4. This will result in:

    https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/d/1tHxniRedAypZ-mN7coRERumJv7NBSoU2

  5. Copy and paste this URL to the Image URL textbox in your form. It will now display on your form or guidelines.

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