Use a base_URL or a slash instead of relative path for internal resources

[JoeTessier]

Hi @squidfunk thx for your job ! 🙏

I was wondering if it would be possible to use a global variable for the base_url or a regular / character at the start of a link to tell to fetch the resource from the root ?

ex/
❌ instead of having ![My image](../../../assets/img/folder/image.png),

just being able to write
✅ ![My image](/assets/img/folder/image.png) or
✅ ![My image]({{ base_URL }}/assets/img/folder/image.png)

Or maybe there's already a baseURL data somewhere, but the best option imo is to start with a slash, and it doesn't seem working atm.

Thanks for you help,
Have a nice evening ✌

[squidfunk]

This is essentially a MkDocs question, as it's not specifically related to Material for MkDocs. As I understand, there are several plugins for managing URLs, some of which allow for absolute URLs. Check out the MkDocs plugin wiki.

[JoeTessier]

Copy that, fine by me. Thanks 🙏

[gledos]

i use mkdocs-abs-rel-plugin, it's nice plugin.

But after using this plugin, you can only use absolute link.

[kamilkrzyskow]

With version 1.6.0 relative_to_docs value for validation was introduced, which allows to use the absolute paths starting with / as described in the OP post:

validation:
  absolute_links: relative_to_docs

https://www.mkdocs.org/about/release-notes/#validation
https://www.mkdocs.org/user-guide/configuration/#validation