Website designers embed inline images into Web pages using the HTML "img" tag. You can surround this tag with anchor tags to create a link in the same way that you attach links to text on a page.

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In order to embed HTML, you actually need to copy the rendered HTML from either an existing web page or WYSIWYG HTML editor and then paste it into Gmail.