inline object
An inline object is an object that’s placed within the flow of text; it sits on the same line as the text and moves with the text as you type. If you paste an image, image gallery, equation, shape, text box or video into a text box or shape, the pasted object is automatically placed inline with any text in the outer (parent) object.
![An image is placed inline with text.](https://help.apple.com/assets/5CDC401A0946222B0E787522/5CDC40C10946222E107875BC/en_GB/b476880511ea8c7dd03dcc896b66d4a9.png)