Can I link to a section (navigation index) from a markdown file?

[emign]

Hi,
I have the following folder structure:

Samenpflanzen als Lebewesen/
├─ index.md
├─ Samenpflanzen als.md
Der Mensch als Lebewesen/
├─ index.md
├─ Stoffwechsel/
│  ├─ index.md
├─ Information - Aufnahme, Verarbeitung und Reaktion.md
Ökosystem Grünland.md

The contents of Ökosystem Grünland.md are:

---
---
[[Samenpflanzen als]]

[[Samenpflanzen als Lebewesen]]

[[Der Mensch als Lebewesen]]

[[Stoffwechsel]]

[[Information - Aufnahme, Verarbeitung und Reaktion]]

You can open the resulting mkdocs generated html file here: https://unterricht.emig.me/Unterricht/F%C3%A4cher/Biologie/NuT/%C3%96kosystem%20Gr%C3%BCnland/

As you can see, the links to Samenpflanzen als.md and Information - Aufnahme, Verarbeitung und Reaktion.md are working perfectly fine. But the links to the sections with the `index.md files do not work.

For example the Stoffwechsel link is generated as : <a href="../../../../Stoffwechsel" title="Stoffwechsel">Stoffwechsel</a>
but it should be: <a href="../Der%20Mensch%20als%20Lebewesen/Stoffwechsel/">Stoffwechsel</a>

Please note, that the link in the navigation bar on the left actually IS generated correctly

How can I correctly link to the navigation index?

[squidfunk]

Just link to the respective index.md file. Note that all Markdown links need to be relative from the linking document.

[emign]

I still think it's an mkdocs/material issue because the nav links on the left are created correctly from the same source

[squidfunk]

I'd recommend trying another theme (e.g. mkdocs). My intuition is that you'll end up with the same problem which would indicate that it's not a Material for MkDocs issue, but rather a Python Markdown or other extension issue.

[emign]

Only material has the _navigation.indexes _ extension (which correctly generates the links). It's just the page internal links which don't work. And not because they don't reference the correct base-file/folder but for them ../../../../../ is prepended to the link.

[squidfunk]

Please note, that the link in the navigation bar on the left actually IS generated correctly

navigation.indexes only impacts the navigation bar.

[emign]

Please note, that the link in the navigation bar on the left actually IS generated correctly

navigation.indexes only impacts the navigation bar.

Yes. But both (Navbar links and page links) are generated from the same (md) source files. Still the navbar links work, the page links break in the process.

The navbar links keep working ok any subpage too.