Including images
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.
- content
- static
- images
- logo.png
- menu-button.gif
- images
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." %}}
![Diagram of a design pattern represented by a turd emoji begetting three bad implementations](/images/bad_design_system.png)
{{% /figure %}}
This will output the following. Note the automatically incremented Figure number.
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>