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Metadata in markdown links?

Just wondering if there is any way to use metadata tags in markdown links? At the moment this markdown:

![caption]({{url}}_images/picture.jpg)`

Becomes, this HTML:

<img src="/%7B%7Burl%7D%7D_images/picture.jpg" alt="caption">

The brackets just get encoded. Can this be avoided? Or should I just use HTML to start with?

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There is no way to use the variables in your post!

But if you're trying to embed an image within your blog folder, please note you don't need to fully-qualify the URL. For example, this markdown will render correctly given your current directory structure:

![Caption](/_images/picture.jpg)

And this will work too, if _picture.jpg is inside the same directory as the markdown file:

![Caption](_picture.jpg)

Does that help?

Answered 3 months ago · Improve this answer

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