diff --git a/assets/ts/gallery.ts b/assets/ts/gallery.ts
index 730139b..ec7c02d 100644
--- a/assets/ts/gallery.ts
+++ b/assets/ts/gallery.ts
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ class StackGallery {
             if (!isNewLineImage) continue;
 
             const hasLink = img.parentElement.tagName == 'A';
-            
+
             let el: HTMLElement = img;
             /// Wrap image with figure tag, with flex-grow and flex-basis values extracted from img's data attributes
             const figure = document.createElement('figure');
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ class StackGallery {
             /// Add figcaption if it exists
             if (img.hasAttribute('alt')) {
                 const figcaption = document.createElement('figcaption');
-                figcaption.innerHTML = img.getAttribute('data-alt-html');
+                figcaption.innerText = img.getAttribute('alt');
                 figure.appendChild(figcaption);
             }
 
diff --git a/layouts/_default/_markup/render-image.html b/layouts/_default/_markup/render-image.html
index ceda1ed..0ed5584 100644
--- a/layouts/_default/_markup/render-image.html
+++ b/layouts/_default/_markup/render-image.html
@@ -32,9 +32,7 @@
 	loading="lazy"
 	{{ with $alt }}
 		alt="{{ . }}"
-		data-alt-html="{{ . | markdownify }}"
 	{{ end }}
-
 	{{ if $galleryImage }}
 		class="gallery-image" 
 		data-flex-grow="{{ div (mul $image.Width 100) $image.Height }}"