# Please allow changing markdown link style
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/please-allow-changing-markdown-link-style/22842
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [December 4, 2014, 3:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/please-allow-changing-markdown-link-style/22842 "2014-12-04T15:41:10Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@rahim123](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rahim123)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2014, 3:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/please-allow-changing-markdown-link-style/22842/1 "2014-12-04T15:41:10Z")
Hi there,
I don’t like the way the Discourse topic editor creates links in Markdown:
```plaintext
[Example][1]
[1]: http://example.com
```
On a long post, this makes it harder to change the link, because you have to scroll around looking for the link URL. I much prefer the normal Markdown link method:
```
[Example](http://example.com)
```
Would it be possible to add an option to switch this default?
Thanks a lot!
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2014, 2:54am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/please-allow-changing-markdown-link-style/22842/2 "2014-12-05T02:54:48Z")
There are no plans to change that at this time.
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### Author:  [@rahim123](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rahim123)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2014, 3:49am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/please-allow-changing-markdown-link-style/22842/3 "2014-12-05T03:49:33Z")
If not a change to the default setting, a configuration option would be much appreciated.
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### Author:  [@chapoi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/chapoi)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2025, 11:33am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/please-allow-changing-markdown-link-style/22842/4 "2025-12-04T11:33:23Z")