cupper-hugo-theme/content/patterns/media/including-images.md

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From time to time, you'll be wanting to include images illustrating the documented pattern in hand. Images live in the static folder, which is a sibling of the /content folder you'll be mostly working in.

{{% fileTree %}}

• content
• static
  • images
    • logo.png
    • menu-button.gif {{% /fileTree %}}

{{% note %}} When you first make a copy of Cupper, Cupper's own logo will be included. You should replace this with your own company or project logo. {{% /note %}}

The path to the /images folder should begin with a forward slash, so include that when referencing images in your markdown.

![Global Megacorp Ltd](/images/logo.png)

Figures

Sometimes you will want to include a caption with your illustration. This is what the <figure> and <figcaption> elements are for. However, Cupper doesn't ask you to code all that manually. A special shortcode is provided, which takes a caption parameter. Note that the image markdown is provided between the opening and closing shortcode tags, and that you can use markdown syntax in the caption value.

{{}} {{% figure caption="A design system that uses a bad code example as a single source of truth only serves to proliferate bad code." %}} {{% /figure %}} {{}}

This will output the following. Note the automatically incremented Figure number.

{{% figure caption="A design system that uses a bad code example as a single source of truth only serves to proliferate bad code." %}} {{% /figure %}}

The generated markup includes special provisions for assistive technology support:

<figure role="group" aria-describedby="caption-5fbafefe946c724e7a5d3d2d447a8684">
  <p><img src="http://localhost:1313/images/bad_design_system.png" alt="Diagram of a design pattern represented by a turd emoji begetting three bad implementations"></p>
  <figcaption id="caption-5fbafefe946c724e7a5d3d2d447a8684">
    A design system that uses a bad code example as a <strong>single source of truth</strong> only serves to proliferate bad code.
  </figcaption>
</figure>