Introduction This article explains the Custom Ribbon Action to set the Custom Image to a Ribbon button and that is absolutely awesome! I was creating a Custom Action in my SharePoint Hosted app. I wanted to add a Button into the Ribbon of any Custom List to my App Web and do some work based on List Information. I started by adding a Custom Ribbon Action.You can see the following code snippet of elements.xml of the Custom Ribbon Action that will be generated for you based on your settings selected in the wizard.Have a look at the highlighted code in the previous block. You will notice that the icon of the button is a placeholder you have the ability to change. The next screenshot shows the button with the placeholder icon:Solution:A better workaround is to use Data URIs that is a way of embedding the actual image data in the src attribute of the img tag. The only limitation is browser support for example.The code after applying this workaround will be like this:The following is the final output of the Customize Icon to Ribbon button.Note: There are many image data URI generators online like this one.
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