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This plugin is for MkDocs to add capability of @import "file" statement to directly insert various files into a page.
Supported file types
As image file type, following extensions are supported
Extension
File type
Behavior
.jpeg
JPEG
Image
.jpg
^
^
.gif
Graphics Interchange Format
^
.png
Portable Network Graphics
^
.apng
Animated Portable Network Graphics
^
.svg
Scalable Vector Graphics
^
.bmp
Windows bitmap
^
Following extensions are also supported.
Extension
File type
Behavior
.csv
Comma-Separated Values
Table
.js
JavaScript
JavaScript
.md
Markdown
Markdown
.html
HTML
Text
.htm
^
^
.mermaid
Mermaid
Comment
.dot
DOT
^
.puml
PlantUML
^
.pu
^
^
Installation
Install the plugin using pip:
pip install mkdocs-import-statement-plugin
Next, add the following lines to your mkdocs.yml:
plugins:
- search
- import-statement
If you have no plugins entry in your config file yet, you'll likely also want to add the search plugin. MkDocs enables it by default if there is no plugins entry set.
Usage
In your markdown documents you can describe as following.
@import "file"
When you use MkDocs, this plugin will replace these import statements appropriately depending on the extension.
Image file
The import statement is replaced as following.

If there are {} options after the import statement, that statement will be replaced with a <img> tag.
For example,
@import "file" {width="640" height="480"}
is converted to as follwoing.
<imgsrc="file" width="640" height="480">
Where the image file path is relative to the markdown file.
Table file
The import statement is replaced with a Markdown table that expands the contents of the specified file.
For example, when the following CSV file is as following.