9errie
February 7, 2026, 10:36am
1
Cursor IDE
It is great that you can edit Markdown files directly in ‘Preview’ mode!
However when an image is referenced in the md file it is not rendered in preview mode, see screenshot. Cursor version 2.4.28
Extensions like Markdown Preview Enhanced do render the images, but build-in support would be nice.
Not sure if this should be a Visual Studio Code feature request. The lines are blurry for me sometimes.
Cheers.
MacOS
I find this limiting as well. It appears to be specific to Cursor: the same project opened in VSC does preview the images.
fire
May 9, 2026, 8:14am
4
Cursor IDE
The default Cursor Markdown renderer fails to render Markdown images ( both remote URLs and local relative paths ).
Open any markdown file in Cursor that contains image markdown, for example:
Remote: 
Local:  ( download the above image into the same local folder )
View it in Cursor’s default Markdown renderer.
Observe that images do not render.
Cursor’s default Markdown renderer should render valid Markdown images for both remote URLs and local relative paths.
Behavior should probably just match VS Code markdown preview.
vscode.markdown.preview.editor ( local and remote ):
MacOS
Version: 3.3.28
If you configure Cursor’s workbench editor association to use the VS Code markdown preview editor instead:
"workbench.editorAssociations": {
"*.md": "vscode.markdown.preview.editor"
}
The images render without issue, however, if a markdown file is then opened with the VS Code preview editor first, using the in-editor Preview / Markdown toggles ( in the top right ) switches to Cursor’s Markdown editor ( and subsequently its previewer ) and image rendering breaks again.
No - Cursor works, but with this issue
What is funny: When you click in the “Open Preview to the Side”, it does show the images. When you click the toggle to switch to Preview mode it does not.
Yeah I wasted like 13% usage in Cursor Ultra because of this
Please also test  when fixing this. That’s valid CommonMark for paths containing spaces; it works in Obsidian and VS Code preview but not in Cursor. A fix for plain  only would still leave spaced paths broken — I use this syntax across a shared Obsidian vault edited in Cursor/VS Code/Obsidian.
I use MD Editor Plus extension. Right click on md file > open with > choose MD Editor plus
I also changed in settings to make it dark mode, but it shows the images and lets you edit in markdown mode.
Gonzal0
July 15, 2026, 12:44pm
12
Any updates on this? It’s been happening since February, and it’s becoming pretty frustrating.
