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image resize in github flavored markdown.

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https://gyazo.com/eb5c5741b6a9a16c692170a41a49c858.png

Try resize it!

  • ![](https://gyazo.com/eb5c5741b6a9a16c692170a41a49c858.png | width=100)

  • ![](https://gyazo.com/eb5c5741b6a9a16c692170a41a49c858.png =250x250)

  • ![](https://gyazo.com/eb5c5741b6a9a16c692170a41a49c858.png)

    • Copy <img> in browser DevTools. Replace ![](url) to <img>. Add width(and height) attr.
    • <img src="https://camo.githubusercontent.com/..." data-canonical-src="https://gyazo.com/eb5c5741b6a9a16c692170a41a49c858.png" width="200" height="400" />

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@andry81
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andry81 commented Dec 14, 2020

markdown is a piece of shit hyped format and this page is a proof of it.

Actually, software developers turned to smart phone users and made all images downscale for the sake of usage in the poor width devices. Here is nothing to do with the markdown format together with all others formats which suffers from the same issue. So users of smart phone is a "piece of shit hyped format". Not the markdown fault.

@gerroon
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gerroon commented Dec 14, 2020

markdown is a piece of shit hyped format and this page is a proof of it.

Actually, software developers turned to smart phone users and made all images downscale for the sake of usage in the poor width devices. Here is nothing to do with the markdown format together with all others formats which suffers from the same issue. So users of smart phone is a "piece of shit hyped format". Not the markdown fault.

Yes, proliferation of the markdown flavors is a testament of the underlying issue. It does not solve any problem and makes it very confusing plus now moving between so called flavors is pain in the butt unless you write purely text content.

Favorite developer question at new year parties, "Which markdown flavor do you like?"

@Galaxy-Coding
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Galaxy-Coding commented Dec 15, 2020

markdown is a piece of shit hyped format and this page is a proof of it.

Actually, software developers turned to smart phone users and made all images downscale for the sake of usage in the poor width devices. Here is nothing to do with the markdown format together with all others formats which suffers from the same issue. So users of smart phone is a "piece of shit hyped format". Not the markdown fault.

Yes, proliferation of the markdown flavors is a testament of the underlying issue. It does not solve any problem and makes it very confusing plus now moving between so called flavors is pain in the butt unless you write purely text content.

Favorite developer question at new year parties, "Which markdown flavor do you like?"

also, how is the github dark mode is a great conversation starter

@karimamd
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the html trick worked for me

@ernestoz1
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Thanks

@rdsserrao
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rdsserrao commented Jan 26, 2021

Thanks guys, it also worked for me.
After getting the URL from pasting the image in the "Issues" tab, i pasted it on the readme file and replaced:
![image](https://your-image-url.type) with <img src="https://your-image-url.type" width="600">

@surendar9
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Duplicate the image could be one possible solution for this .
For example your image file is : ![site name](image.png) then add, [![site name](image.png)](image.png)

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ghost commented Feb 4, 2021

perfect with <img> tag 😄
the only solution that works for me (image from a copy/paste on Github)

@burhr2
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burhr2 commented Feb 6, 2021

@consbulaquena thanks ! it also works in issue comments.
When adding/editing a comment :

  • upload picture by drag-and-drop in the text field
  • replace ![image](https://your-image-url.type) with <img src="https://your-image-url.type" width="100" height="100">

Thanks to @consbulaquena & @MichaelPolla this worked in my case.

@Yuzeyang
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@consbulaquena thanks! it also works in issue comments.
When adding/editing a comment :

  • upload picture by drag-and-drop in the text field
  • replace ![image](https://your-image-url.type) with <img src="https://your-image-url.type" width="100" height="100">

It works!

@baneeishaque2
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@nipgrnc104

Github doesn't apply the style attribute but obeys the width and height. So for github you can use the following HTML tag directly in the markdown:

<img src="url" alt="alt text" width="whatever" height="whatever">

Working...

@W01fw00d
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Thanks!

@iphearum
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iphearum commented Apr 22, 2021

Apply style to image, plz try this
my css style

img[src*="#thumbnail"] {
   width:150px;
   height:100px;
}
img[title="thumbnail"] {
   width:200px;
}
img[alt$="-thumbnail"]{
    width:300px;
}

my coding style

![img](link#thumbnail) <!-- src = link#thumbnail -->
![img](link "thumbnail") <!-- title = thumbnail -->
![img -thumbnail](link) <!-- alt = img -thumbnail -->

@1pavanb
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1pavanb commented Apr 22, 2021

image

@labouz
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labouz commented May 6, 2021

For GitHub wiki pages, this syntax works: (remember the px)
[[https://gyazo.com/eb5c5741b6a9a16c692170a41a49c858.png|width=100px]]

This did it!! I forgot the "px". thanks @kyle30312

@Tanya1902
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HTML syntax worked great. Not that much more complicated than existing markup. You only need to set the width, the image tag will automatically set the height for you to keep the right aspect ratio

<img src="https://your-image-url.type" width="300">

this works easily

@krystian3w
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krystian3w commented May 24, 2021

The "best" works html <img> and legacy attribs width +/- height (https://gist.github.com/uupaa/f77d2bcf4dc7a294d109#gistcomment-1880104).

On discourse forums (like https://meta.discourse.org/) possible use:

![img|320x271](https://gyazo.com/eb5c5741b6a9a16c692170a41a49c858.png)

also

![img|320x271,50%](https://gyazo.com/eb5c5741b6a9a16c692170a41a49c858.png)

@englianhu
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<img src='figure/rstudio.png' width='25'>
<img src='figure/anaconda.png' width='25'>
<img src='figure/jupyterlab.png' width='25'>

2021-05-25_23-29

@arq0017
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arq0017 commented May 30, 2021

@consbulaquena thanks ! it also works in issue comments.
When adding/editing a comment :

  • upload picture by drag-and-drop in the text field
  • replace ![image](https://your-image-url.type) with <img src="https://your-image-url.type" width="100" height="100">

worked for me

@Ghassanee
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<img src="https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/yourgif.gif" width="400" height="790">

worked, Thanks!

@AliyahMillan
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@consbulaquena thanks! it also works in issue comments.
When adding/editing a comment :

  • upload picture by drag-and-drop in the text field
  • replace ![image](https://your-image-url.type) with <img src="https://your-image-url.type" width="100" height="100">

Thanks this worked for me

Thanks, this also worked for me.

@wangpin34
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@nipgrnc104

Github doesn't apply the style attribute but obeys the width and height. So for github you can use the following HTML tag directly in the markdown:

<img src="url" alt="alt text" width="whatever" height="whatever">

Works for me. Thanks

@wakoliVotes
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@consbulaquena thanks! it also works in issue comments.
When adding/editing a comment :

  • upload picture by drag-and-drop in the text field
  • replace ![image](https://your-image-url.type) with <img src="https://your-image-url.type" width="100" height="100">

Thanks this worked for me

Thanks, this also worked for me.

Thank you a lot, after trying severally, it worked. I almost gave up. The replace aspect was what I was missing.

@martinKindall
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@danny-votez thank you, worked for me too, in Github.

@itbj
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itbj commented Dec 27, 2021

👍

@shakiz
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shakiz commented Mar 10, 2022

HTML syntax worked great. Not that much more complicated than existing markup. You only need to set the width, the image tag will automatically set the height for you to keep the right aspect ratio

<img src="https://your-image-url.type" width="300">

this works easily

Yeah!! This works easily! Thanks.

@vinirossa
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for me, I need to remove the "px" in order to get it to work ;)

@arlenyvalle
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arlenyvalle commented Jun 22, 2022

@dirkk0
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dirkk0 commented Aug 17, 2022

Apply style to image, plz try this my css style

img[src*="#thumbnail"] {
   width:150px;
   height:100px;
}
img[title="thumbnail"] {
   width:200px;
}
img[alt$="-thumbnail"]{
    width:300px;
}

my coding style

![img](link#thumbnail) <!-- src = link#thumbnail -->
![img](link "thumbnail") <!-- title = thumbnail -->
![img -thumbnail](link) <!-- alt = img -thumbnail -->

awesome, thanks @iphearum !

@ericthemarques
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Thanks guys, it also worked for me. After getting the URL from pasting the image in the "Issues" tab, i pasted it on the readme file and replaced: ![image](https://your-image-url.type) with <img src="https://your-image-url.type" width="600">

That is really helpfull my man, ty

@GuillermoFidalgo
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This worked for me.
I'm using this for a jekyll site.

![alt](image.png){: width="50%"}

@rnag
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rnag commented Dec 25, 2022

@GuillermoFidalgo thanks, you my hero 😺

work for me in a jekyll scenario as well.

@stravid87
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Thank You!
(used the img tag trick)

@andry81
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andry81 commented Dec 29, 2022

![alt](image.png){: width="50%"}

Still does not work in github repo readme. The {: width="50%"} part just does ignore.

@rnag
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rnag commented Dec 30, 2022

@andry81 from what I understand that's just for building static sites with jekyll - i.e. with github pages or similar

@sebaptcd
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sebaptcd commented Jan 3, 2023

Great info, worked for me!

@SuayMack
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SuayMack commented Jan 5, 2023

Thank You!

@gforien
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gforien commented Jan 11, 2023

Thank you !!
![alt|500](https://image.png) or simply ![|500](https://image.png) worked for me in Obsidian

@asgar72
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asgar72 commented Jun 7, 2023

@nipgrnc104
Github doesn't apply the style attribute but obeys the width and height. So for github you can use the following HTML tag directly in the markdown:

<img src="url" alt="alt text" width="whatever" height="whatever">

Working...

Thanks bro that's worked

@iamamanporwal
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thanks brdr

@dideler
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dideler commented Sep 5, 2023

Everyone, please just use the HTML img tag with src and width attributes. Bonus if using alt and title for accessibility.

It is simple, understandable, works in every Markdown engine, and is practically what Markdown's ![]() compiles to.

@Jackiexiao
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![](https://gyazo.com/eb5c5741b6a9a16c692170a41a49c858.png|width=10)

@igorskyflyer
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But anybody knows how to make them responsive? I applied both width and height in my profile's README and it works great on my desktop but looks so bad on my phone.

Yes, I could just take out the height attribute but you actually need them both to avoid CLS -cumulative layout shift, which is why I added the attributes to begin with.

@dirkk0
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dirkk0 commented Oct 11, 2023

@igorskyflyer not sure if you can inject css files, but if you can, you could try css variables with media queries.

@igorskyflyer
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The style attribute gets stripped out...

@dafurman
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dafurman commented Apr 9, 2024

I found myself referring to this gist a lot over the years for the sake of reducing the size of gigantic images when I put them in PR descriptions, so I've turned this into a simple Shortcut:
https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/7415f6fa654144479bf5e965701c8838

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