gatsby-remark-external-links

Adds the target and rel attributes to external links in markdown.
This is a gatsby port of the remark-external-links remark plugin.

Usage

1. Install plugin to your site:

yarn add gatsby-remark-external-links

1. Add following to your gatsby-config.js:

plugins: [      
  {
    resolve: `gatsby-transformer-remark`,
    options: {
      plugins: [
      {
        resolve: "gatsby-remark-external-links",
        options: {
          target: "_self",
          rel: "nofollow"
        }
      }
      ]
    }
  },

1. Restart gastby.

API

options

target

Type: string Default: _blank
Specifies where to display the linked URL. The value should be on of : _self, _blank, _parent, _top
You can specify null to not add the target attribute to your links

rel

Type: string Default: nofollow noopener noreferrer
Specifies the relationship of the target object to the link object. The value is a space-separated list of link types.
You can specify null to not add the rel attribute to your links
When using target, consider adding rel="noopener noreferrer" to avoid exploitation of the window.opener API.

License

MIT