Jekyll uses Markdown-formatted links, but how can I link to internal content?
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Jekyll uses Markdown-formatted links, but how can I link to internal content?
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You can now post internal links by using the following:
[Some Link]({% post_url 2010-07-21-name-of-post %})
This is also referenced in the Jekyll Documentation.
https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll/pull/369
For pages, they decided not to add a page_url
tag because you'd have to know the path of the page anyway. So you just have to link to it manually:
[My page](/path/to/page.html)
Or you can do something big and ugly like this if you want to programatically get the title of the page:
{% for page in site.pages %}
{% if page.url == '/path/to/page.html' %}
[{{ page.title }}]({{ page.url }})
{% endif %}
{% endfor %}
It is now possible to link to pages other than posts using the link
tag. link
works for posts, pages, documents in a collection, and files.
{{ site.baseurl }}{% link _collection/name-of-document.md %}
{{ site.baseurl }}{% link _posts/2016-07-26-name-of-post.md %}
{{ site.baseurl }}{% link news/index.html %}
{{ site.baseurl }}{% link /assets/files/doc.pdf %}
Remember to include the file extension when using the link
tag.
To use it to create a link:
[Link to a document]({{ site.baseurl }}{% link _collection/name-of-document.md %})
[Link to a post]({{ site.baseurl }}{% link _posts/2016-07-26-name-of-post.md %})
[Link to a page]({{ site.baseurl }}{% link news/index.html %})
[Link to a file]({{ site.baseurl }}{% link /assets/files/doc.pdf %})
See Jekyll Documentation.
There are multiple ways of linking in Jekyll, some of which are now outdated.
The recommended way to link to internal files is
[Link]({{ site.baseurl }}{% link path/to/file.md %})
Note that this will cause an error if the file moves or gets deleted.
To link to a page without causing errors (broken links instead):
[Link]({{ '/path/to/page/' | relative_url }})
Note that here you need to know the permalink of the page and pass it through the relative_url
filter to ensure that it is prefixed with the base url of the site.
The permalink of a page depends on the permalink
setting in your config file and the permalink
key in the front matter of the file.
If you want to use relative paths (and want the links to work in GitHub's markdown view), you should use jekyll-relative-links
. This lets you write links like:
[Link](./path/to/file.md)
[Link to file in parent folder](../file.md)
If the internal content is on the same page then it is possible to link to it using the auto_ids
feature. You enable this in _config.yml
:
kramdown:
auto_ids: true
With this enabled each heading gets an id
ref based on the heading text. For example
### My Funky Heading
will become
<h3 id="my-funky-heading">My Funky Heading</h3>
You can link to this from within the same document by doing something like this:
The funky text is [described below](#my-funky-heading)
You can assign an explicit id if you prefer:
### My Funky Heading
{: #funky }
and link to it
The funky text is [described below](#funky)