Markdown Image caption.

Inspired by the probably un-maintained package mdx_figcap

Usage:

Make sure you have markdown installed.

Define an image with caption in your markdown.

![alttext](http://example.com/image.png "caption")

This will be converted to:

<span class="img_container center" style="display: inline-block;">
    <img alt="test" src="http://example.com/image.png" style="display:block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="caption" />
    <span class="img_caption" style="display: block; text-align: center;">caption</span>
</span>

Why no figure tag implementation ?

The figure tag is a block level element. The image element is an inline element. This difference breaks the attribute extension. So ![alttext](http://example.com/image.png "caption"){: .center} would not work if a figure was used.

Installation

pip install markdown-image-caption

add the plugin to your markdown

import markdown

parser = markdown.Markdown(extensions=["markdown_image_caption.plugin"])