Link Checker is a useful tool within AEM that validates all external and internal links on content pages. It shows all invalid, expired, and pre-dated links broken in the authoring environment, as shown below:
In this post, I’m going to share an issue with AEM Link Checker that I ran into recently, and walk you through how I resolved it.
The Problem
I was working on a component that takes a page path from authoring dialog and displays an image with a link to the page. I was not able to edit the component whenever I selected any expired or pre-dated page path.
<a href="/any/expired/or/pre-dated/link">
<img src="/valid/image/path">
</a>
Link checker marked the link as expired and added the prefix image of a broken link and opening brace. However, the suffix image of the closing brace was missing, as shown in the following image:
It also added some extra anchor elements with the expired link at the end of the component. Hence, the component was broken and not editable.
<div>
<img src="/libs/cq/linkchecker/resources/linkcheck_o.gif" alt="expired link: /expired/link" title="expired link: /expired/link" border="0">
<a href=”/expired/link”>
<img src="/valid/image/path">
</a>
</div>
<a href=”/expired/link”></a>
<a href=”/expired/link”></a>
<a href=”/expired/link”></a>
The Solution
I found a simple trick that helped me resolve this issue without affecting any other link validation. Simply disable the link checker for the image inside the expired link.
<a href="/expired/link">
<img x-cq-linkchecker="skip" src="/valid/image/path">
</a>
Note: You can disable validation for any specific link by using either x-cq-linkchecker=”skip” or x-cq-linkchecker=”valid” property.
This added the closing brace for the broken image link and also removed the extra anchor tags at the end, as shown below:
<div>
<img src="/libs/cq/linkchecker/resources/linkcheck_o.gif" alt="expired link: /expired/link" title="expired link: /expired/link" border="0">
<a href=”/expired/link”>
<img src="/valid/image/path">
</a>
<img src="/libs/cq/linkchecker/resources/linkcheck_c.gif" border="0">
</div>
An alternative solution is to disable link checking for the expired link itself. While this fixes the issue, it will no longer show the expired link as broken.
<a x-cq-linkchecker="skip" href="/expired/link">
<img src="/valid/image/path">
</a>
I hope you’ve found this post and solution helpful. Comment below and share your AEM solutions!
I found a simple trick that helped me resolve this issue without affecting any other link validation. Simply disable the link checker for the image inside the expired link.
<a href="/expired/link">
<img x-cq-linkchecker="skip" src="/valid/image/path">
</a>
Note: You can disable validation for any specific link by using either x-cq-linkchecker=”skip” or x-cq-linkchecker=”valid” property.
This added the closing brace for the broken image link and also removed the extra anchor tags at the end, as shown below:
<div>
<img src="/libs/cq/linkchecker/resources/linkcheck_o.gif" alt="expired link: /expired/link" title="expired link: /expired/link" border="0">
<a href=”/expired/link”>
<img src="/valid/image/path">
</a>
<img src="/libs/cq/linkchecker/resources/linkcheck_c.gif" border="0">
</div>
An alternative solution is to disable link checking for the expired link itself. While this fixes the issue, it will no longer show the expired link as broken.
<a x-cq-linkchecker="skip" href="/expired/link">
<img src="/valid/image/path">
</a>
I hope you’ve found this post and solution helpful. Comment below and share your AEM solutions!
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