Using an image caption in Markdown Jekyll

Question

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/ima

Answer 1

You can use table for this. It works fine.

| ![space-1.jpg](http://www.storywarren.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/space-1.jpg) | 
|:--:| 
| *Space* |

Result:

Answer 2

<p align="center">
  <img alt="img-name" src="/path/image-name.png" width="300">
  <br>
    <em>caption</em>
</p>

That is the basic caption use. Not necessary to use an extra plugin.

Answer 3

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.

Answer 4

A slight riff on the top voted answer that I found to be a little more explicit is to use the jekyll syntax for adding a class to something and then style it that way.

So in the post you would have:

![My image](/images/my-image.png)

{:.image-caption}
*The caption for my image*

And then in your CSS file you can do something like this:

.image-caption {
  text-align: center;
  font-size: .8rem;
  color: light-grey;

Comes out looking good!