Showing base64 images in table

KevinS · April 30, 2025, 11:28am

I've added support for displaying base64 strings as images in a table. I'd love to see this feature included in a future update.

Here are the changes I made:

It might be even better if row height could be made configurable in the table’s visualization settings, but I haven’t explored that part yet.

This is how it would look in an SQL-question, some parts are blurred for privacy reasons.
The red outlined part would be the way to show the images.

I hope this feature can be added in a future release, as it would allow me to easily display serialized base64 images from my source database.

MirkoWK · October 29, 2025, 5:23am

Hello everyone,
It would be great if this feature could be implemented. What are the chances, @Metabase?

Best regards,
Mirko

dwhitemv · November 1, 2025, 5:45am

Upvote the feature request on GitHub:

github.com/metabase/metabase

Display base64/blob fields as images

opened 06:21AM - 16 Jul 20 UTC

kevinob11

Priority:P3 Type:New Feature .Frontend Visualization/Tables

**Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.** Ability to s…how product images, which are stored in the database as base64 or blobs. **Describe the solution you'd like** Ideally you could set the image formatter on a field that is a base64 or blobs image and it would display as an image. **Describe alternatives you've considered** Setting up a webserver with a script, which returns the image and add a link to that in a table in Metabase. Working with the vendor to make the images available online, but we haven't gotten anywhere. :arrow_down: Please click the :+1: reaction instead of leaving a `+1` or `update?` comment