View as Markdown

The View as Markdown action navigates to the page’s markdown route, where the body is served as text/markdown. The browser shows the raw source — useful for confirming what gets copied, what an LLM sees, or just inspecting the canonical markdown of a page.

When to use it

• Verifying that the markdown route returns what you expect.
• Linking someone to the raw source of a docs page.
• Manual extraction by readers who prefer the markdown to the rendered HTML.

Configuration

viewMarkdown is on by default. To disable it:

starlightLlmActions({
  actions: {
    viewMarkdown: false,
  },
})

When disabled, the action is removed from the dropdown.

How it works

The action is a plain anchor (<a href>) under the hood. Clicking it navigates to the URL produced by markdownUrl (default /{slug}.md), which the plugin’s injected route serves with:

• Content-Type: text/markdown; charset=utf-8
• The body of the matching Content Collection entry, untransformed

Browsers display text/markdown as plain text. There’s no fallback rendering inside the docs site — the user sees exactly what an LLM, fetcher, or script would see at that URL.

Customising the URL

Use markdownUrl to change the path pattern, e.g. to serve under .txt:

starlightLlmActions({
  markdownUrl: '/{slug}.txt',
})

See also

• Copy as Markdown — copies the same content to the clipboard instead of navigating.
• injectRoute — opt out of the plugin’s built-in markdown route if your site already publishes per-page markdown.