Weird link with image issue #406

mikenakis · 2025-10-10T11:22:41Z

mikenakis
Oct 10, 2025

Hello!

I have this html:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"[<!ENTITY nbsp "&#160;">]>
<html>
  <head></head>
  <body>
    <br />
    <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
      <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGHL3zMe_QLEUHUelgpa3zXGm0wBBBQqyYPkZBjZ1E54dzRsuuRULoljzWuOBgYr8WKnzKJ41C9cL8w_toZ6d0rsgOcWML-A__oEVlymcz_2qBN149XB7l7LDW6BeaaHpRTQuCpIxqDj3QxrB6ks3T9aQmpEQNP-GHauJ1AwJkrjd9EhlY5TrZdcRk_g/s4425/f6bd3be44e2209187a7ad90351928bac.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;">
        <img border="0" data-original-height="1863" data-original-width="4425" height="270" src="f6bd3be44e2209187a7ad90351928bac.jpg" width="640" />
      </a>
    </div>

I feed it to ReverseMarkdown with all configuration options set to their defaults, and this is what I get:

[!\[\](f6bd3be44e2209187a7ad90351928bac.jpg)](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGHL3zMe_QLEUHUelgpa3zXGm0wBBBQqyYPkZBjZ1E54dzRsuuRULoljzWuOBgYr8WKnzKJ41C9cL8w_toZ6d0rsgOcWML-A__oEVlymcz_2qBN149XB7l7LDW6BeaaHpRTQuCpIxqDj3QxrB6ks3T9aQmpEQNP-GHauJ1AwJkrjd9EhlY5TrZdcRk_g/s4425/f6bd3be44e2209187a7ad90351928bac.jpg)

Note that the [] part has been escaped as \[\].

As a result, this renders both in Visual Studio and in Obsidian as the following piece of text, which is a link:

![](f6bd3be44e2209187a7ad90351928bac.jpg)

I expected the markdown generated by ReverseMarkdown from the above html fragment to be such that it renders as an image.

If I edit the generated markdown, and manually replace the \[\] with a plain [], then it renders as an image.

What is happening?

Is this a bug in ReverseMarkdown?

Are there any options that I should specify to get ReverseMarkdown to generate markdown that renders this as an image?

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