Free Image to Base64 Converter
Need to embed an image directly in your HTML, CSS, or a JSON API response? Base64 encoding allows you to represent binary image data as a plain text string. This tool does the conversion instantly in your browser.
What is Base64?
Base64 is a binary-to-text encoding scheme. It takes the raw bytes of a file and converts them into a set of 64 safe ASCII characters. This makes it possible to include images in places where binary data isn't allowed, such as inside a CSS file or within a JSON object.
Use Cases
- CSS Background Images:
background-image: url('data:image/png;base64,...'); - HTML Image Tags:
<img src="data:image/png;base64,..." /> - API Payloads: Sending image data in a JSON body.
- Email Embedding: Inline images in HTML emails.