# Display of images in links break if they contain parenthesis
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/display-of-images-in-links-break-if-they-contain-parenthesis/52271
**Category:** Bug
**Tags:** markdown-it-review
**Created:** [31.Октябрь.2016 21:08:29 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/display-of-images-in-links-break-if-they-contain-parenthesis/52271 "2016-10-31T21:08:29Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [31.Октябрь.2016 21:08:29 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/display-of-images-in-links-break-if-they-contain-parenthesis/52271/1 "2016-10-31T21:08:29Z")
To reproduce:
```
[filename.png)](https://example.com/stupid(66)filename.png)
```
Of course, a better solution might be to include just the raw image link on a line by itself. I may just need to deal with image links more elegantly. . .
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [31.Октябрь.2016 21:34:21 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/display-of-images-in-links-break-if-they-contain-parenthesis/52271/2 "2016-10-31T21:34:21Z")
See
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [31.Октябрь.2016 23:52:02 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/display-of-images-in-links-break-if-they-contain-parenthesis/52271/3 "2016-10-31T23:52:02Z")
I’d checked that. It’s not links to urls with parentheses that I’m having with, but links to URLs containing parentheses when the displayed text is an image whose url contains a parenthesis. In html, it’d be
```
filename.png)
```
I am pretty sure that this won’t work in our Markdown (the code that generates that markdown works fine if the image URL doesn’t contain parentheses) and that what I need to do is for such links, just replace the whole thing with
```
http://x.com/really(silly)filename.png
```
I can’t imagine that a human would ever do it the other way, so I’ll just have to cowboy up and deal with images that contain parentheses some other way (or even just all display-an-image-with-a-link-to-the-image instances).
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [01.Ноябрь.2016 04:07:26 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/display-of-images-in-links-break-if-they-contain-parenthesis/52271/4 "2016-11-01T04:07:26Z")
Replace the parens with the URL encoded versions per the link I posted…
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [01.Ноябрь.2016 16:27:12 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/display-of-images-in-links-break-if-they-contain-parenthesis/52271/5 "2016-11-01T16:27:12Z")
Apparently I was capable of reading only the other 6 ways. ☹
Thanks.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [26.Июнь.2017 14:02:33 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/display-of-images-in-links-break-if-they-contain-parenthesis/52271/6 "2017-06-26T14:02:33Z")
This now looks right to me:
```plaintext
[filename.png)](https://example.com/stupid(66)filename.png)
```
> [@CommonMark testing started here!](https://meta.discourse.org/t/commonmark-testing-started-here/65121):
>
> Per our [migration plans](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-commonmark-migration-plans-confetti-ball-balloon), I just enabled [markdown.it](https://github.com/markdown-it/markdown-it) at Meta. It is an excellent [CommonMark](http://commonmark.org/) compliant engine. I expect quite a few edges to be found during this period of testing. Do not open bugs about the new Engine, just reply here. I/we will be updating the top post here with the list of issues and striking out stuff as it is fixed. Current known issues (to be fixed)white_check_mark Onebox vanishes after you start typing and works not-super consistently white_check_mark pending…
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [26.Июнь.2017 14:02:39 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/display-of-images-in-links-break-if-they-contain-parenthesis/52271/7 "2017-06-26T14:02:39Z")