# What happened to image (Elements API)

**URL:** <https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/what-happened-to-image-elements-api/53734>\
**Category:** Elements API\
**Created:** [January 20, 2026, 12:03am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/what-happened-to-image-elements-api/53734 "2026-01-20T00:03:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![upssjw](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/upssjw/32/26063_2.png) [@upssjw](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/upssjw)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2026, 12:03am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/what-happened-to-image-elements-api/53734/1 "2026-01-20T00:03:48Z")

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@dan what happened to image

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**Author:** ![ben](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/ben/32/28488_2.png) [@ben](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/ben)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2026, 8:21am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/what-happened-to-image-elements-api/53734/2 "2026-01-20T08:21:54Z")

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you should use the [Resource control](https://docs.realmacsoftware.com/elements-docs/elements-language/component/properties.json/ui-controls/resource) for anything resource related, such as images 🙂

As an example, in your properties:

```json
{
  "title": "Image",
  "id": "image",
  "resource": {}
}

```

and your template:

```php-template
<img src="{{image}}" />

```

That’ll get you an image on the page! Hope that helps 🙂

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**Author:** ![upssjw](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/upssjw/32/26063_2.png) [@upssjw](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/upssjw)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2026, 9:27am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/what-happened-to-image-elements-api/53734/3 "2026-01-20T09:27:37Z")

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I already use image, it used to be in the list that was my question, maybe it was removed ages ago first time I have looked here for a while

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**Author:** ![ben](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/ben/32/28488_2.png) [@ben](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/ben)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2026, 1:21pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/what-happened-to-image-elements-api/53734/4 "2026-01-20T13:21:54Z")

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The Image control has been replaced with `resource`. Image should not have been in the docs — we must have missed removing it when we created the resource control.