rehype-autolink-headings
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rehype plugin to add links to headings
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rehype-autolink-headings
rehype plugin to add links from headings back to themselves.
Contents
- What is this?
- When should I use this?
- Install
- Use
- API
- Examples
- Types
- Compatibility
- Security
- Related
- Contribute
- License
What is this?
This package is a unified (rehype) plugin to add links from headings
back to themselves.
It looks for headings (so <h1>
through <h6>
) that have id
properties,
and injects a link to themselves.
Similar functionality is applied by many places that render markdown.
For example, when browsing this readme on GitHub or npm, an anchor is added
to headings, which you can share to point people to a particular place in a
document.
unified is a project that transforms content with abstract syntax trees (ASTs). rehype adds support for HTML to unified. hast is the HTML AST that rehype uses. This is a rehype plugin that adds links to headings in the AST.
When should I use this?
This plugin is useful when you have relatively long documents, where you want
users to be able to link to particular sections, and you already have id
properties set on all (or certain?) headings.
A different plugin, rehype-slug
, adds id
s to headings.
When a heading doesn’t already have an id
property, it creates a slug from
it, and adds that as the id
property.
When using both plugins together, all headings (whether explicitly with a
certain id
or automatically with a generate one) will get a link back to
themselves.
Install
This package is ESM only. In Node.js (version 16+), install with npm:
npm install rehype-autolink-headings
In Deno with esm.sh
:
import rehypeAutolinkHeadings from 'https://esm.sh/rehype-autolink-headings@7'
In browsers with esm.sh
:
<script type="module">
import rehypeAutolinkHeadings from 'https://esm.sh/rehype-autolink-headings@7?bundle'
</script>
Use
Say we have the following file example.html
:
<h1>Solar System</h1>
<h2>Formation and evolution</h2>
<h2>Structure and composition</h2>
<h3>Orbits</h3>
<h3>Composition</h3>
<h3>Distances and scales</h3>
<h3>Interplanetary environment</h3>
<p>…</p>
…and our module example.js
contains:
import {rehype} from 'rehype'
import rehypeAutolinkHeadings from 'rehype-autolink-headings'
import rehypeSlug from 'rehype-slug'
import {read} from 'to-vfile'
const file = await rehype()
.data('settings', {fragment: true})
.use(rehypeSlug)
.use(rehypeAutolinkHeadings)
.process(await read('example.html'))
console.log(String(file))
…then running node example.js
yields:
<h1 id="solar-system"><a aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1" href="#solar-system"><span class="icon icon-link"></span></a>Solar System</h1>
<h2 id="formation-and-evolution"><a aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1" href="#formation-and-evolution"><span class="icon icon-link"></span></a>Formation and evolution</h2>
<h2 id="structure-and-composition"><a aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1" href="#structure-and-composition"><span class="icon icon-link"></span></a>Structure and composition</h2>
<h3 id="orbits"><a aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1" href="#orbits"><span class="icon icon-link"></span></a>Orbits</h3>
<h3 id="composition"><a aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1" href="#composition"><span class="icon icon-link"></span></a>Composition</h3>
<h3 id="distances-and-scales"><a aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1" href="#distances-and-scales"><span class="icon icon-link"></span></a>Distances and scales</h3>
<h3 id="interplanetary-environment"><a aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1" href="#interplanetary-environment"><span class="icon icon-link"></span></a>Interplanetary environment</h3>
<p>…</p>
API
This package exports no identifiers.
The default export is rehypeAutolinkHeadings
.
unified().use(rehypeAutolinkHeadings[, options])
Add links from headings back to themselves.
Parameters
options
(Options
, optional) — configuration
Returns
Transform (Transformer
).
Notes
This plugin only applies to headings with id
s.
Use rehype-slug
to generate id
s for headings that don’t have them.
Several behaviors are supported:
'prepend'
(default) — inject link before the heading text'append'
— inject link after the heading text'wrap'
— wrap the whole heading text with the link'before'
— insert link before the heading'after'
— insert link after the heading
Behavior
Behavior (TypeScript type).
Type
type Behavior = 'after' | 'append' | 'before' | 'prepend' | 'wrap'
Build
Generate content (TypeScript type).
Parameters
element
(Element
) — current heading
Returns
Content (Array<Node>
or Node
).
BuildProperties
Generate properties (TypeScript type).
Parameters
element
(Element
) — current heading
Returns
Properties (Properties
).
Options
Configuration (TypeScript type).
Fields
behavior
(Behavior
, default:'prepend'
) — how to create linkscontent
(Array<Node>
,Node
, orBuild
, default: if'wrap'
thenundefined
, otherwise equivalent of<span class="icon icon-link"></span>
) — content to insert in the link; ifbehavior
is'wrap'
andBuild
is passed, its result replaces the existing content, otherwise the content is added after existing contentgroup
(Array<Node>
,Node
, orBuild
, optional) — content to wrap the heading and link with, ifbehavior
is'after'
or'before'
headingProperties
(BuildProperties
orProperties
, optional) — extra properties to set on the headingproperties
(BuildProperties
orProperties
, default:{ariaHidden: true, tabIndex: -1}
if'append'
or'prepend'
, otherwiseundefined
) — extra properties to set on the link when injectingtest
(Test
, optional) — extra test for which headings are linked
Examples
Example: different behaviors
This example shows what each behavior generates by default.
import {rehype} from 'rehype'
import rehypeAutolinkHeadings from 'rehype-autolink-headings'
const behaviors = ['after', 'append', 'before', 'prepend', 'wrap']
let index = -1
while (++index < behaviors.length) {
const behavior = behaviors[index]
console.log(
String(
await rehype()
.data('settings', {fragment: true})
.use(rehypeAutolinkHeadings, {behavior})
.process('<h1 id="' + behavior + '">' + behavior + '</h1>')
)
)
}
Yields:
<h1 id="after">after</h1><a href="#after"><span class="icon icon-link"></span></a>
<h1 id="append">append<a aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1" href="#append"><span class="icon icon-link"></span></a></h1>
<a href="#before"><span class="icon icon-link"></span></a><h1 id="before">before</h1>
<h1 id="prepend"><a aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1" href="#prepend"><span class="icon icon-link"></span></a>prepend</h1>
<h1 id="wrap"><a href="#wrap">wrap</a></h1>
Example: building content with hastscript
The following example passes options.content
as a function, to generate an
accessible description specific to each link.
It uses hastscript
to build nodes.
import {h} from 'hastscript'
import {toString} from 'hast-util-to-string'
import {rehype} from 'rehype'
import rehypeAutolinkHeadings from 'rehype-autolink-headings'
const file = await rehype()
.data('settings', {fragment: true})
.use(rehypeAutolinkHeadings, {
content(node) {
return [
h('span.visually-hidden', 'Read the “', toString(node), '” section'),
h('span.icon.icon-link', {ariaHidden: 'true'})
]
}
})
.process('<h1 id="pluto">Pluto</h1>')
console.log(String(file))
Yields:
<h1 id="pluto"><a aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1" href="#pluto"><span class="visually-hidden">Read the “Pluto” section</span><span class="icon icon-link" aria-hidden="true"></span></a>Pluto</h1>
Example: passing content from a string of HTML
The following example passes content
as nodes.
It uses hast-util-from-html-isomorphic
to
build nodes from a string of HTML.
/**
* @typedef {import('hast').ElementContent} ElementContent
*/
import {fromHtmlIsomorphic} from 'hast-util-from-html-isomorphic'
import {rehype} from 'rehype'
import rehypeAutolinkHeadings from 'rehype-autolink-headings'
const file = await rehype()
.data('settings', {fragment: true})
.use(rehypeAutolinkHeadings, {
content: /** @type {Array<ElementContent>} */ (
fromHtmlIsomorphic(
'<svg height="10" width="10"><circle cx="5" cy="5" r="5" fill="black" /></svg>',
{fragment: true}
).children
)
})
.process('<h1 id="makemake">Makemake</h1>')
console.log(String(file))
Yields:
<h1 id="makemake"><a aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1" href="#makemake"><svg height="10" width="10"><circle cx="5" cy="5" r="5" fill="black"></circle></svg></a>Makemake</h1>
Example: group
The following example passes group
as a function, to dynamically generate a
differing element that wraps the heading.
It uses hastscript
to build nodes.
import {h} from 'hastscript'
import {rehype} from 'rehype'
import rehypeAutolinkHeadings from 'rehype-autolink-headings'
const file = await rehype()
.data('settings', {fragment: true})
.use(rehypeAutolinkHeadings, {
behavior: 'before',
group(node) {
return h('.heading-' + node.tagName.charAt(1) + '-group')
}
})
.process('<h1 id="ceres">Ceres</h1>')
console.log(String(file))
Yields:
<div class="heading-1-group"><a href="#ceres"><span class="icon icon-link"></span></a><h1 id="ceres">Ceres</h1></div>
Types
This package is fully typed with TypeScript.
It exports the additional types
Behavior
,
Build
,
BuildProperties
, and
Options
.
Compatibility
Projects maintained by the unified collective are compatible with maintained versions of Node.js.
When we cut a new major release, we drop support for unmaintained versions of
Node.
This means we try to keep the current release line,
rehype-autolink-headings@^7
, compatible with Node.js 16.
This plugin works with rehype-parse
version 1+, rehype-stringify
version 1+,
rehype
version 1+, and unified
version 4+.
Security
Use of rehype-autolink-headings
can open you up to a
cross-site scripting (XSS) attack if you pass user provided content in
content
, group
, or properties
.
Always be wary of user input and use rehype-sanitize
.
Related
rehype-slug
— addid
s to headingsrehype-highlight
— apply syntax highlighting to code blocksrehype-toc
— add a table of contents (TOC)
Contribute
See contributing.md
in rehypejs/.github
for ways
to get started.
See support.md
for ways to get help.
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