Linking

Option Front Matter By default, external links open in a new tab. To change this, use the externalLinkTarget setting with a proper link target.

For example, this will open links in the same tab

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externalLinkTarget = '_self'
externalLinkTarget: _self
{
   "externalLinkTarget": "_self"
}

Option Front Matter You can use link.errorlevel and image.errorlevel to control what should happen if a local link can not be resolved to a page and/or a resource.

If not set or empty, any unresolved link is written as given into the resulting output. If set to warning the same happens and an additional warning is printed in the built console. If set to error an error message is printed and the build is aborted.

Please note that this can not resolve files inside of your static directory. The file must be a resource of the page or the site.

Link warnings are also available for the include and openapi shortcodes.

​
[image]
  errorlevel = 'warning'

[link]
  errorlevel = 'warning'
image:
  errorlevel: warning
link:
  errorlevel: warning
{
   "image": {
      "errorlevel": "warning"
   },
   "link": {
      "errorlevel": "warning"
   }
}

Ignoring False Negatives

Option Front Matter In case you want to use link warnings but are bothered by false negatives, you can configure an ignore list of regular expressions. The referenced address will be checked against all regexes of this list. If the address matches at least one regex, no output will be written to the console. The check uses Hugo’s findRE function.

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errorignore = ['^/authoring/', '^/configuration/']
errorignore:
- ^/authoring/
- ^/configuration/
{
   "errorignore": [
      "^/authoring/",
      "^/configuration/"
   ]
}