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Add images to Markdown

Learn how to add images into your Markdown content from the web

Updated over a week ago

Markdown is a lightweight markup language with plain text formatting syntax that is designed to be converted to HTML. One of its most popular features is the ability to easily add images to your documents.

Capable Markdown supports images from remote websites and attachments to Confluence pages, you just need the URL of the image.

Basic Syntax

The basic syntax to insert an image in Markdown is:

![My Sample Image](https://example.com/path/to/image.jpg)

  • ![Alt text] - This is the alternative text for the image which describes what the image represents. It's very important for accessibility and SEO.

  • (URL) - This is the direct link to the image. It can be a relative path to the file within your project or an absolute URL from a remote server.

How to include attached images

Copy the URL of the image and paste it in using the syntax described above.

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