# Check My Links: Options

To prevent this extension from checking a link, please enter all or part of the URL in the blacklist below. Each URL must be entered on a new line.

For example: www.mydomain.com will prevent the following links from being checked: www.mydomain.com/page1.html or www.mydomain.com/page2.html

Exclude links from these domains:

Enable Batch Processing
Link Range to Process at once (Start, End):
Delay Between Each Batch (Seconds):

Method of Request:

HEAD is quicker, but sometimes doesn't reflect the true HTTP status of a page, use GET if you're getting weird results. GET is required to be able to parse the document for an element corresponding to what is after the hashtag by ID.

AutoCheck:

When enabled, if the url of the current tab changes and the page is loaded, it will automatically be checked. Valid link caching is recommended when this is enabled.

### Warnings

Warnings are shown in the console.log (F12->Console tab). Also, they are highlighted yellow.

Parse DOM after hashtag (<a href="page2.html#elementID">Link</a>)

Hashtags can link to elements by id within the DOM. Enabling will add add the check to make sure an element exists by id to correspond to the hashtag. When enabled, if the page resolves but the corresponding element is not found, the element will be marked as a warning. Request Type: GET is required

Trailing '#' (<a href="#">Link</a>")

When enabled, if the link url endswith '#' you will be warned.

Empty Link (<a href="">Empty href</a>)

When enabled, if the link url is empty 'href=""' you will be warned.

Include Empty Links in the report (<a href="">Empty href</a>)

Check to include the verification of empty links & to get in download/view report

Anchor tag without href (<a>No href</a>)

When enabled, if there is an anchor tag without an 'href' attribute you will be warned.

Valid Link Caching

If you don't want to constantly re-check good (green, HTTP 200) links, enable the option below to force the extension to only check new links or links which were previously broken (red, HTTP 404 etc). Enabling 'Valid Link Caching' vastly reduces the time it will take to repeatedly check a page.

Cache Valid Links:
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Nofollow Links

By default, Check My Links will not check links with a link rel attribute of 'nofollow', you should apply this attribute to links you don't want the extension to trigger (such as Log Out, Sign Out links etc).

Check Links with rel="nofollow"

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