Links in copyright notice in footer

[pideu-mh]

It is easily possible to put absolute links in the copyright notice in the footer in mkdocs.yml.

My mkdocs-material-based documentation is a sub-section of some other website, so I used this method to add links for contacts, imprint and privacy which link to the dedicated pages of the "mother homepage". This worked fine.

Now I wanted to have a separate, dedicated contact.md in my mkdocs-material documentation, but unfortunately this does not work.

I tried to add a relative link like this:

copyright: <a href="contact">&#10140; Contact</a>

Initially this seemed to work: clicking on the link takes me to contact.md correctly.

However, this only works if the page where the footer is displayed is on "level 1" of the documentation. I have created a minimal working example that uses the following page layout:

nav:
  - index.md
  - level2/index.md
  - contact.md

If I click on the contact link on the page on "level 2", then I get a 404 error.

I have tried to use <a href="/contact"> (note the slash) instead, however this does not work with my webserver configuration, because the mkdocs-material pages must be placed in subdirectory and I cannot change the configuration freely.

Is there any way to make this work what I am trying to do?

I have attached a minimal working example that shows the problem I am facing.
mwe.zip

[squidfunk]

As you noticed, it't not possible to use relative links at this point. What you can do is use theme extension, override the copyright partial and use the url filter to make the link relative. Something like:

<!-- Copyright and theme information -->
<div class="md-copyright">
  {% if config.copyright %}
    <div class="md-copyright__highlight">
      <a href="{{ 'contact' | url }}">&#10140; Contact</a>
    </div>
  {% endif %}
  {% if not config.extra.generator == false %}
    Made with
    <a
      href="https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/"
      target="_blank" rel="noopener"
    >
      Material for MkDocs
    </a>
  {% endif %}
</div>

[pideu-mh]

Thank you very much for your suggestion. I did not know about the url filter and actually found little information how it works and what it can be used for.

But your suggestion fixes the problem I was having - thanks again!