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markdownlint-rule-relative-links
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Custom rule for markdownlint to validate relative links.
Custom rule for markdownlint to validate relative links.
markdownlint-rule-relative-links is a markdownlint custom rule to validate relative links.
It ensures that relative links (using file:
protocol) are working and exists in the file system of the project that uses markdownlint.
File structure:
├── abc.txt
└── awesome.md
With awesome.md
content:
[abc](./abc.txt)
[Invalid link](./invalid.txt)
Running markdownlint-cli2 with markdownlint-rule-relative-links
will output:
awesome.md:3 relative-links Relative links should be valid ["./invalid.txt" should exist in the file system]

).markdownlint
rule - MD051 (e.g: [Link](./awesome.md#heading)
).https://example.com/
or /absolute/path.png
).<a href="./link.txt" />
or <img src="./image.png" />
).Contributions are welcome to improve the rule, and to alleviate these limitations. See CONTRIBUTING.md for more information.
Node.js >= 22.0.0
npm install --save-dev markdownlint-rule-relative-links
There are various ways markdownlint can be configured using objects, config files etc. For more information on configuration refer to options.config.
We recommend configuring markdownlint-cli2 over markdownlint-cli for compatibility with the vscode-markdownlint extension.
.markdownlint-cli2.mjs
import relativeLinksRule, { markdownIt } from "markdownlint-rule-relative-links"
const config = {
config: {
default: true,
"relative-links": true,
},
globs: ["**/*.md"],
ignores: ["**/node_modules"],
customRules: [relativeLinksRule],
markdownItFactory: () => {
return markdownIt
},
}
export default config
package.json
{
"scripts": {
"lint:markdown": "markdownlint-cli2"
}
}
node --run lint:markdown
Anyone can help to improve the project, submit a Feature Request, a bug report or even correct a simple spelling mistake.
The steps to contribute can be found in the CONTRIBUTING.md file.
FAQs
Custom rule for markdownlint to validate relative links.
The npm package markdownlint-rule-relative-links receives a total of 22,991 weekly downloads. As such, markdownlint-rule-relative-links popularity was classified as popular.
We found that markdownlint-rule-relative-links demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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