Center align image in README.adoc (AsciiDoc) on GitHub

Question

I want to center align an image in a README.adoc file in GitHub.

I know that for Markdown files, adding HTML like the following works:

<p align="center">
  <img width="460" height="300" src="http://www.fillmurray.com/460/300">
</p>

However, I want to write the file in AsciiDoc, not Markdown.

What I have tried but has not worked

Suppose there is a map.png image in the same dir as the README.

image::map.png[A map, 350, align=center]

This displays the correct image, but aligned to the left.

Flax

Same here, the align="center"is ignored (doesn't exist) in the HTML code rendered by GitHub. This is probably a GitHub bug. Nothing todo with center. In your image attributes above. I wonder if you missed a numerical info for width and height. Should it be [A map, 350, 350, align="center"] – Perni

@Perni I also tried setting the height positional attribute, but GitHub renders it to the exact dimensions set, rather than preserving the aspect ratio as it would look when converted to a PDF or HTML with the asciidoctor CLI. Omitting the height attribute sizes the image to the desired width and preserves the aspect ratio in GitHub – Flax

Answer 1

GitHub is using Asciidoctor but strips away CSS classes and inline CSS styles. As a workaround you can use a passthrough (which is not ideal):

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<p align="center">
  <img width="460" height="300" src="http://www.fillmurray.com/460/300">
</p>
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You can also comment/vote for this issue: https://github.com/github/markup/issues/984

I recommend using a conditional block to use this passthrough only when the README is rendered on GitHub:

ifdef::env-github[]
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<p align="center">
  <img width="460" height="300" src="http://www.fillmurray.com/460/300">
</p>
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endif::[]

ifndef::env-github[]
image::map.png[A map, 350, align=center]
endif::[]

Ancon