microsoft/vscode-markdown-languageservice

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The language service that powers VS Code's Markdown support, extracted so that it can be reused by other editors and tools

Stars: 438
Forks: 25
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 19
Avg merge: 3d 21h
Merged PRs (30d): 1

Dominant language: TypeScript
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Aug 24, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: Code of conduct
Beginner labels: help wanted

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19 open issues indexed

Find references doesn't work when finding from Id Open

bug

microsoft/vscode-markdown-languageservice#248 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened May 11, 2026
Support renames on html id tag links Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

microsoft/vscode-markdown-languageservice#244 · 1 comment · Opened May 8, 2026
Support comment-based skipping of specific link validation (similar to ``) Open

feature-request

microsoft/vscode-markdown-languageservice#219 · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 30, 2025
Support HTML custom data in Markdown editor Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/vscode-markdown-languageservice#217 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 25, 2025
UX not supporting creation of link text in square brackets [] in markdown with spaces in pathname Open

feature-request

microsoft/vscode-markdown-languageservice#205 · 3 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 9, 2025
Allow validation of extensionless links to non-markdown syntax files Open

feature-request

microsoft/vscode-markdown-languageservice#189 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 6, 2024
Ability to provide an ignore list of reference links for markdown validation Open

feature-request

microsoft/vscode-markdown-languageservice#152 · 8 comments · 29 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Oct 2, 2023
Allow folding html tags with blank new lines Open

bug

microsoft/vscode-markdown-languageservice#119 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Feb 28, 2023
Markdown extract to link would be better to default to the link text Open

feature-request

microsoft/vscode-markdown-languageservice#108 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Dec 6, 2022
Figure out what to do about case insensitive file systems (if anything) Open

bug

microsoft/vscode-markdown-languageservice#106 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Dec 2, 2022
Markdown footnote validation Open

bug

microsoft/vscode-markdown-languageservice#100 · 11 comments · 16 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Nov 22, 2022
Markdown lint for links is not correct. Open

bug

microsoft/vscode-markdown-languageservice#96 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Nov 14, 2022
`markdown.validate.referenceLinks.enabled` Improperly marking Jekyll YAML Headers as "No like definition found" Open

bug

microsoft/vscode-markdown-languageservice#91 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Nov 3, 2022
Feature Request: Show current reference link definition on hover Open

feature-request help wanted

microsoft/vscode-markdown-languageservice#74 · 2 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Oct 19, 2022
"No link definition found" for footnotes Open

feature-request

microsoft/vscode-markdown-languageservice#8 · 3 comments · 3 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 24, 2022
Link detection is not robust Open

bug

microsoft/vscode-markdown-languageservice#7 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 22, 2022
Support smart selection for Markdown table Open

feature-request

microsoft/vscode-markdown-languageservice#1 · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 8, 2022
“Links” in Markdown Math Wrongly Validated Open

bug markdown

microsoft/vscode-markdown-languageservice#14 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 11, 2022
Markdown links detected inside of commented code Open

bug help wanted markdown

microsoft/vscode-markdown-languageservice#52 · 4 comments · 1 assignee · Opened May 17, 2022

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