# VSCode & local image in markdown
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vscode-local-image-in-markdown/121291
**Category:** VS Code
**Created:** [October 14, 2024, 2:11pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vscode-local-image-in-markdown/121291 "2024-10-14T14:11:25Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@BLI](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/BLI)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2024, 2:11pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vscode-local-image-in-markdown/121291/1 "2024-10-14T14:11:25Z")
I asked about this a year ago, but there was not really a solution to my problem…
I’m trying to insert an image into a markdown cell of a Jupyter Notebook in VSCode. The following code does not work, for some weird reason:
```julia
```
Here, the image is found in the `figs` directory, which is a subdirectory of the parent directory of where the notebook is located.
_However_, it seems like if I _move_ the image file to the same directory as the notebook, and change the insertion code to:
```julia
```
then it sort of works… (“sort of”… I had to open the markdown cell and execute it several times before the image showed up… and this makes the directory cluttered).
**Question:** Is this a bug in VSCode/Jupyter notebook?
[If I instead create a subdirectory `figs` _under_ the location of the notebook and write:
```julia
```
this also works. I want to put figures in a given folder to avoid clutter. I’m surprised that I cannot use the `"../figs/...."` syntax. ]
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### Author:  [@dqeeq](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/dqeeq)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2024, 5:46pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vscode-local-image-in-markdown/121291/2 "2024-10-15T17:46:51Z")
I have an impression that jupyter can only see files in children directories. A quick search reveals [this confirmation](https://stackoverflow.com/a/46762386)
I am not sure if I understood your question properly though. I mean I did not get where is the root of your jupyter notebook.
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### Author:  [@BLI](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/BLI)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2024, 6:07pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vscode-local-image-in-markdown/121291/3 "2024-10-15T18:07:35Z")
I am modifying a Jupyter notebook that I ran in the past using IJulia, in my web browser. In the original notebook, there was no problem in using
```julia
```
But this file syntax does not work with Jupyter notebook in VSCode. I do not think this is because VSCode is confused with the directory it is in – I also tried to specify the full path in the text string above (`"C://...."`), but that didn’t work. So either there is a reduced functionality in VSCode (compared to IJulia + web browser), or some changes has been made.
I can probably live with putting figures in sub-folders, but I don’t like it… I try to have (LaTeX) documents (`docs`), figures (`figs`), and notebooks (`nbs`) in parallel subfolders, and I may have to change that.
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### Author:  [@dqeeq](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/dqeeq)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2024, 3:25pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vscode-local-image-in-markdown/121291/4 "2024-10-16T15:25:16Z")
This has nothing to do with julia.
You may want to open a bug report on github: [vscode-jupyter](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-jupyter).
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### Author:  [@BLI](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/BLI)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2024, 3:31pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vscode-local-image-in-markdown/121291/5 "2024-10-16T15:31:48Z")
I will do so.