Rich text images lose custom labels after editing

[content (Eve Davis)]

Images I have in document text seem to lose their custom labels after editing.

Here is what I did

1. Created a document with a rich text section. The section includes images.
2. I defined a custom label called text-center, which I applied to some images. This works fine and my images get the custom label applied.
3. Edit the document in any way, republish. The labels applied to the images have disappeared.

[Paulina]

Hello Eve, thanks for reaching out about this. This is a known issue we're already tracking and have discussed in the past. Please refer to this other thread where Phil explains this in detail:

Adding labels to images within rich text

Hi Team, No, it's not possible to add labels to image fields in the rich text field. This is not something that will be re-implemented as it goes against the recommended workflow of using Slices described here. What will happen is that is that we will properly deprecate it by removing labels from being selectable when an image is highlighted as this causes confusion and gives the impression that labels can be applied, though as you’ve seen they cannot. The recommended way of creating page lay…

[content (Eve Davis)]

Thank Paulina, we've implemented slices now and got that working