I am hosting a Jekyll Blog on Github and write my posts with Markdown. When I am adding images, I do it the following way:
![name of the image](http://link.com/image.jpg)
This then shows the image in the text.
However, how can I tell Markdown to add a caption which is presented below or above the image?
I know this is an old question but I thought I'd still share my method of adding image captions. You won't be able to use the caption
or figcaption
tags, but this would be a simple alternative without using any plugins.
In your markdown, you can wrap your caption with the emphasis tag and put it directly underneath the image without inserting a new line like so:
![](path_to_image)
*image_caption*
This would generate the following HTML:
<p>
<img src="path_to_image" alt>
<em>image_caption</em>
</p>
Then in your CSS you can style it using the following selector without interfering with other em
tags on the page:
img + em { }
Note that you must not have a blank line between the image and the caption because that would instead generate:
<p>
<img src="path_to_image" alt>
</p>
<p>
<em>image_caption</em>
</p>
You can also use whatever tag you want other than em
. Just make sure there is a tag, otherwise you won't be able to style it.