Bug: Relative link to picture is not working

[Harald Hanöfner]

A relative link to a picture is not working in a markdown file.

Let's say we have some pictures in a subfolder "images" next to the markdown file. If we now have a link inside the markdown file, like:

[Picture-1](images/example.jpg)

Above relative link is not working.

But if the picture is embedded (note the ! at the beginning), like this:


then it is working.

[Rohit Sharma]

Hey,

The ! version is the supported markdown format. Read more about official markdown at https://commonmark.org/help/tutorial/08-images.html.

[Harald Hanöfner]

Thanks for the feedback. I know I can embed my images with this ! version. Probably it was wrong from my side to declare this topic as a bug.

But sometimes I want just have a link in my md-file (without seeing the image as embedded) and only if I click on it, the image is shown.

Maybe this is more as a new feature of allowing open links to locale documents (e.g. via its default app). So also working for relative pdf-files and other file types.

[Harald Hanöfner]

I did some further research.

What is also not working => <a href="images/example.jpg">link text</a>

I would expect that the picture is opened and shown via the html code. But it isn't. Only an empty picture is shown.

What is also interesting: When clicking on a embedded image, the same image viewer is opened and does showing the images within. So why is this not working when opening the image as a link? This would be very convenient. Because sometimes I don't want to embed the images between the text. I just want to have a link and only when clicking on it, the image is shown.

Could you maybe integrate this, please? Would be wonderful.