# Ability to center images with markdown

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-center-images-with-markdown/271552
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [July 13, 2023, 3:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-center-images-with-markdown/271552 "2023-07-13T15:41:28Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author: ![jordan-violet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jordan-violet/32/281428_2.png) [@jordan-violet](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jordan-violet)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2023, 3:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-center-images-with-markdown/271552/1 "2023-07-13T15:41:28Z")

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Today, we use:

```plaintext
<div align="center">
[image]
</div>

```

It would be nice if image code had an option to center as well. Something like:

```plaintext
![image|100x499|centered](upload://zPH5RYitXN4nR9PUKTp2fJT7Xta.png)

```

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### Author: ![Lilly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/lilly/32/575047_2.png) [@Lilly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Lilly)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2023, 5:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-center-images-with-markdown/271552/4 "2023-07-13T17:11:18Z")

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i was just working on a [image alignment theme component](https://meta.discourse.org/t/image-alignment-and-grid/271560/1) and added this to it.