How to embed images using Markdown?

I figured it out. The forward slash at the beginning is not needed.

Excellent, glad you figured it out. The first path you used /_image_name.png would only work if the image was located in the top-level directory of your blog folder. Removing the slash makes it a relative path, so it will work if the image is located in the same folder as the post.

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Thank you, that's good to know!

Hi David, could you please add this info in this article: https://blot.im/how/format/embedding

I spent so much time figuring out why my image in the same folder as the text post was not showing up until I searched Questions. Would be great for others if it's covered in the main article. Thank you! :)

Also can you please help me with the exact "alt" code that needs to be added to template to render image caption text.