MDS049-no-space-in-link-text

id	MDS049
name	no-space-in-link-text
status	ready
description	Link text and image alt text must not have leading or trailing whitespace inside the brackets.
category	link
nature	style
maintainability
markdownlint	id name partial default MD039 no-space-in-links false true
rumdl	id name partial default MD039 no-space-in-links false true
mado	id name partial default MD039 no-space-in-links false true
panache
obsidian-linter
gomarklint

MDS049: no-space-in-link-text

Link text and image alt text must not have leading or trailing whitespace inside the brackets.

[ click here ](url) renders the spaces as part of the underlined text in most renderers.

Config

Enable:

rules:
  no-space-in-link-text: true

Disable:

rules:
  no-space-in-link-text: false

Disable image alt-text checking:

rules:
  no-space-in-link-text:
    check-images: false

Examples

Bad

# Title

[ text ](https://example.com)

Good

# Title

Visit [example](https://example.com) for more.

![logo](good/logo.png)

Meta-Information

• ID: MDS049
• Name: no-space-in-link-text
• Status: ready
• Default: disabled (opt-in)
• Fixable: yes
• Implementation: source
• Category: link
• markdownlint: MD039 (no-space-in-links)
• rumdl: MD039 (no-space-in-links)
• mado: MD039 (no-space-in-links)