Why I can’t find the “add text over image” icon on toolbar?

When I searched the topic in internet, it says to click the icon on a toolbar to add text is the easiest way but I don’t see it

Please provide the link to the “internet” that’s telling you this, so I can take a look.

Hi George, thanks, here is the link.

I can see the button from my end on both WordPress 6.4 and 6.3, the default theme and no plugin active.

I do not want to convert image to cover

Unfortunately, this is all the button you’re missing does: when you click it, the image block is converted into a Cover block so the text can be inserted over the image. The button doesn’t do anything else… so it’s exactly like using the cover block.

If you doubt this, feel free to create an instant test site here https://instawp.com/ to test (takes less than 30 seconds, no registration required).

That’s part of the built in Image Block: https://www.ads-software.com/documentation/article/image-block/#adding-text-overlay

You won’t see it if you aren’t using the latest version of WordPress.

And, clicking it will convert the Image Block into a Cover Block: https://www.ads-software.com/documentation/article/cover-block/

Thank you both for your input. James, thanks for the article it is very helpful. I figured out that the function works for a single block image but not for each image packaged in the image gallery pattern. And even for the single block, when you add text over image it converts to Cover Block which I tried but I need to learn more to resize and all that for the look I am intending to build.

I like the unified look of the images in gallery, so I compromise and use captions instead and go from there.

Thank you again.