How to add image in markdown

[Tong Zhao]

We have this company Confluence website, and it seems we have the free version macro of "Insert Markup", in which you could select one of two: Insert "Confluence Wiki" or Insert "Markdown".

I selected the "Markdown" option and was trying to embed an image from an external url. I tried a format posted in the community but didn't work. The format I tried wass:

[!Image Title!|https:www.imageurl.com]

Can someone help? Thanks.

[Dominic Lagger · Accepted solution]

Hi @Tong_Zhao 

I don't know the answer for myself, but can you try the solution from this question:

For anybody else coming to this page, the format is actually

![](<contextpath>/download/attachments/<page_id>/<filename>)

so for Confluence Cloud users it would be

 ![](/wiki/download/attachments/<page_id>/<filename>)

Hope this helps.

Regards, Dominic

[Tong Zhao]

Thank you Dominic for quick answer. The solution you referred to seems to target attachments uploaded to the Confluence cloud. But for images coming from an external url, this reference doesn't seem to provide a solution?

[Dominic Lagger]

I don't know this. have you tried this:

 ![](<<URL>>)

[Tong Zhao]

Hi Dominic, you're the best! This worked seamlessly.. Do you by chance also know how to specify the displayed size of the image?

[Dominic Lagger]

I found this on stackoverflow:

![](<<URL>> =100x20)

You can skip the HEIGHT

![](<<URL>> =250x)

[Tong Zhao]

Thank you Dominic but in this case it doesn't work. I'll keep looking. Shall I refer to the CommonMark.org for Confluence markdown conventions, or is there a better site somewhere?

[Dominic Lagger]

The site seems pretty good ;-) 

For Confluene Wiki Markup (not Markdown) see this page here: 

• Confluence Markup