Is it possible to disable the automatic linking of images in github markdown rendering?

Question

When github.com renders an image in a readme.md, it automatically links the image in an a tag.

Using either

![][http://example.com/path/image] 

or

<img src="http://example.com/path/image" /> 

The actual rendered content will appear as

<a href="https://camo.githubusercontent.com/8a545f12e16ff12fd...." target="_blank"><img src="https://camo.githubusercontent.com/8a545f12e16ff12f..." alt="" data-canonical-src="http://example.com/path/image" style="max-width:100%;"></a> 

I understand the github image caching (on camo.githubusercontent.com), and that's fine, but I don't want the a tag to wrap my image.

I'm not sure if this is part of the github flavored automatic URL linking, or something specific images.

I am able to provide my own link (using my own a tag), but what I really want is no link, no a tag.

Is this possible?

thanks!

Answer 1

You can wrap the image in a link that points to #:

[![](http://example.com/path/image)](#)  <a href="#"><img src="http://example.com/path/image" /></a> 

It will still be clickable, but won't open a new page, at least.

Answer 2

Pass linkImagesToOriginal: false to gatsby-remark-images should be able to resolve this issue.

{  resolve: 'gatsby-remark-images',  options: {    linkImagesToOriginal: false,  }, }