# How to show local picture in the markdown?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-show-local-picture-in-the-markdown/34662>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [November 16, 2015, 10:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-show-local-picture-in-the-markdown/34662 "2015-11-16T10:04:15Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![vikas\_gopal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/vikas_gopal/32/47661_2.png) [@vikas\_gopal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vikas_gopal)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2015, 10:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-show-local-picture-in-the-markdown/34662/1 "2015-11-16T10:04:15Z")

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Hi Experts,

I want to show a picture in my markdown from my local machine . I tried doing the following but it did not work.

```
![example image](E\vg.jpg "An exemplary image")

```

Path of the image is in E:\vg.jpg .

Please suggest how I can achieve this ?

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**Author:** ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2015, 8:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-show-local-picture-in-the-markdown/34662/2 "2015-11-16T20:27:37Z")

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There's a colon missing in your example. But anyway, if you try with a URL instead of a Windows-style filepath it _might_ work (on your machine at least): file:///E:/vg.jpg

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**Author:** ![vikas\_gopal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/vikas_gopal/32/47661_2.png) [@vikas\_gopal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vikas_gopal)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2015, 5:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-show-local-picture-in-the-markdown/34662/3 "2015-11-17T05:52:12Z")

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Thanks Mangnus  
I tried it with : as well but it did not work . So I tried with file path as you suggested, still no luck, I tried

```
![example image](file:///E:/vg.jpg "An exemplary image")

```

Let me explain why I want this , the picture/image which I an showing right now is from Wiki. My concern is what in case internet is not available or website/wiki is down . I think in that case Kibana dashboard or visualization will not show this logo . So to avoid this situation I think if I can show logo from the local drive will work .

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**Author:** ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2015, 6:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-show-local-picture-in-the-markdown/34662/4 "2015-11-17T06:45:19Z")

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Just to be clear, in this context "local drive" means the local drive of the user visiting Kibana, not the local drive of the Kibana server. I don't think that's what you want.

Just set up a simple web server to serve the file.

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**Author:** ![vikas\_gopal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/vikas_gopal/32/47661_2.png) [@vikas\_gopal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vikas_gopal)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2015, 8:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-show-local-picture-in-the-markdown/34662/5 "2015-11-17T08:05:59Z")

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I get it thanks Magnus

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 2:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-show-local-picture-in-the-markdown/34662/6 "2017-07-06T14:08:54Z")

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