Unusual Behavior with Markdown Images in Doxygen Mainpage

Question

For my Doxygen generated documentation, I am planning to reuse my README.md as my main page. This works well for the most part, but it doesn't for Markdown images for some reason. By markdown images, I mean SVGs like:

The markdown for such an image is:

[![Travis Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/arnavb/cpp14-project-template.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/arnavb/cpp14-project-template)

However, when I try and show this in Doxygen, I get output similar to:

As you can see, the images are being interpreted as just links to the respective websites. In order to try and fix this, I decided to temporarily remove the links for the images. However, when I did so, the new output is:

Now, while the images are visible:

1. I can't click on them to access their respective websites.
2. The images have this weird center alignment that I didn't specify anywhere.

This sucks, since I don't want to have to create a separate document for the Doxygen mainpage, but just use my normal README.md. All of the other Markdown is rendering perfectly other than images. I have no idea why. I am using Doxygen 1.8.8, and here is my full Markdown (Without the links):

# Project Name

![Travis Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/arnavb/cpp14-project-template.svg?branch=master)
![Appveyor Build Status](https://ci.appveyor.com/api/projects/status/qvt257817g7c66m9/branch/master?svg=true)
![Documentation](https://codedocs.xyz/arnavb/cpp14-project-template.svg)
![Codacy Badge](https://api.codacy.com/project/badge/Grade/1c76469660ca411fa1f92ce0ef0c5cd3)

A simple template I plan on using for all of my C++14 projects.

# Test header

## Nested header

### lol

> Blockquote

Here is the generated HTML for the markdown above:

<div class="image">
<img src="https://travis-ci.org/arnavb/cpp14-project-template.svg?branch=master"  alt="Travis Build Status"/>
</div>
 <div class="image">
<img src="https://ci.appveyor.com/api/projects/status/qvt257817g7c66m9/branch/master?svg=true"  alt="Appveyor Build Status"/>
</div>
 <div class="image">
<img src="https://codedocs.xyz/arnavb/cpp14-project-template.svg"  alt="Documentation"/>
</div>
 <div class="image">
<img src="https://api.codacy.com/project/badge/Grade/1c76469660ca411fa1f92ce0ef0c5cd3"  alt="Codacy Badge"/>
</div>
<p>A simple template I plan on using for all of my C++14 projects.</p>
<h1>Test header</h1>
<h2>Nested header</h2>
<h3>lol</h3>
<blockquote class="doxtable">
<p>Blockquote</p>
</blockquote>

As a comparison, here is the markdown with the SVGs as links:

<div class="contents">
<div class="textblock"><p><a href="https://travis-ci.org/arnavb/cpp14-project-template">![Travis Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/arnavb/cpp14-project-template.svg?branch=master)</a> <a href="https://ci.appveyor.com/project/arnavb/cpp14-project-template/branch/master">![Appveyor Build Status](https://ci.appveyor.com/api/projects/status/qvt257817g7c66m9/branch/master?svg=true)</a> <a href="https://codedocs.xyz/arnavb/cpp14-project-template/">![Documentation](https://codedocs.xyz/arnavb/cpp14-project-template.svg)</a> <a href="https://www.codacy.com/app/arnavb/cpp14-project-template?utm_source=github.com&amp;amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;amp;utm_content=arnavb/cpp14-project-template&amp;amp;utm_campaign=Badge_Grade">![Codacy Badge](https://api.codacy.com/project/badge/Grade/1c76469660ca411fa1f92ce0ef0c5cd3)</a></p>
<p>A simple template I plan on using for all of my C++14 projects.</p>
<h1>Test header</h1>
<h2>Nested header</h2>
<h3>lol</h3>
<blockquote class="doxtable">
<p>Blockquote</p>
</blockquote>
</div></div><!-- contents -->

And its Image Markdown:

[![Travis Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/arnavb/cpp14-project-template.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/arnavb/cpp14-project-template)
[![Appveyor Build Status](https://ci.appveyor.com/api/projects/status/qvt257817g7c66m9/branch/master?svg=true)](https://ci.appveyor.com/project/arnavb/cpp14-project-template/branch/master)
[![Documentation](https://codedocs.xyz/arnavb/cpp14-project-template.svg)](https://codedocs.xyz/arnavb/cpp14-project-template/)
[![Codacy Badge](https://api.codacy.com/project/badge/Grade/1c76469660ca411fa1f92ce0ef0c5cd3)](https://www.codacy.com/app/arnavb/cpp14-project-template?utm_source=github.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=arnavb/cpp14-project-template&utm_campaign=Badge_Grade)

What should I change to get these Markdown SVG's to render properly in Doxygen?

Answer 1

As of Doxygen 1.8.18, the original issue seems to be resolved.

As indicated in the comments above, you can use inline html as of 1.8.15 if you are unable to upgrade further.