Embedding a board in a post
Inserting a Canvas board into a blog post with its animation intact, and why editing the board afterwards does not silently change the published article.
A board can go straight into a blog post, animation and all.
In the post editor, type / and choose Canvas diagram. A picker appears; pick one of your boards and it becomes a figure in the article.
It is a picture, not an embedded app#
The diagram ships as an SVG image. The animation is drawn into the SVG itself, so it plays without running any code.
The version is pinned#
This is the part worth understanding.
When you insert a board, the post records which version of it you inserted. Editing that board afterwards does not change the published article.
The check runs when you ask for it rather than every time the editor opens, so a post with eight diagrams does not fire eight lookups before you have done anything.
What inserting actually does#
The figure is rendered when you insert it, not when you publish - so what you see in the editor is the real artifact rather than a promise, and publishing cannot fail on a render.
Rendering produces an image and stores it. That image is what readers load.
An empty board is refused rather than inserted as a blank figure.
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