How to embed an image in a post

An image is a great way to make a post better. If chosen properly, it can give context or theme for a post, and it makes the post more recognizable for later.

The simplest way to add an image to Markdown is the image syntax:

![Alt text](https://examples.com/image.jpg)

Which gives us this:

This has one problem though — it is hard to add an image caption in a clean and simple way.

As it turns out, the best way to do it is by inserting plain HTML:

<figure>
	<img alt="Alt text" src="https://examples.com/image.jpg"/>
	<figcaption>Image caption</figcaption>
</figure>

Now the image looks like this:

Image caption

Based on this Stackoverflow answer.