# Is it possible to include files in Commonmark? **URL:** \ **Category:** Extensions\ **Created:** [April 21, 2022, 11:51am UTC](https://talk.commonmark.org/t/is-it-possible-to-include-files-in-commonmark/4128 "2022-04-21T11:51:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![anon20778841](https://cdn.commonmark.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v2/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@anon20778841](https://talk.commonmark.org/u/anon20778841)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2022, 11:51am UTC](https://talk.commonmark.org/t/is-it-possible-to-include-files-in-commonmark/4128/1 "2022-04-21T11:51:13Z")
#### feature name Include files in Commonmark #### feature description I would like commonmark to have the possibility to include files markdown #### sample 1 ```auto # Headline Text [include](File:load_another_md_file_here.md) ``` #### sample 2: test1.md ```auto Something in markdown file! ``` #### sample 2: test2.md ```auto #include "test1.md" ``` #### references - [Include file-content as part of markdown. · Issue #346 · github/markup · GitHub](https://github.com/github/markup/issues/346) - [https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35080160/github-include-md-files-in-readme-md](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35080160/github-include-md-files-in-readme-md) - [Support include of markdown files · Issue #777 · mkdocs/mkdocs · GitHub](https://github.com/mkdocs/mkdocs/issues/777) - [GitHub - cmacmackin/markdown-include: Provides syntax for Python-Markdown which allows for the inclusion of the contents of other Markdown documents.](https://github.com/cmacmackin/markdown-include/) - [GitHub - sethen/markdown-include: 📃 Include markdown files into other markdown files with C style syntax](https://github.com/sethen/markdown-include) - [GitHub - camelaissani/markdown-it-include: Markdown-it plugin which adds the ability to include markdown fragment files](https://github.com/camelaissani/markdown-it-include) - [GitHub - DCsunset/pandoc-include: A pandoc filter to allow file and header inclusion](https://github.com/DCsunset/pandoc-include) - [GitHub - Kevenin/Markdown-Include: Adds Functionalityr to VsCode to create an .md file from multiple md files](https://github.com/Kevenin/Markdown-Include) - [GitHub - neurobin/mdx\_include: Python Markdown extension to include local or remote files](https://github.com/neurobin/mdx_include) - [https://github.com/georgemathieson/blazor-markdown](https://github.com/georgemathieson/blazor-markdown) - [GitHub - IBM/md-includes: Project to allow includes in markdown files](https://github.com/IBM/md-includes) - [GitHub - simonrenger/markdown-include-lines: This is a markdown extension for python which allows you to include lines of a whole source file.](https://github.com/simonrenger/markdown-include-lines) - [GitHub - tomdalling/jekyll-include\_snippet: Include snippets of text from external files into your markdown](https://github.com/tomdalling/jekyll-include_snippet) ---
**Author:** ![chrisalley](https://cdn.commonmark.org/user_avatar/talk.commonmark.org/chrisalley/32/906_2.png) [@chrisalley](https://talk.commonmark.org/u/chrisalley)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2022, 11:32pm UTC](https://talk.commonmark.org/t/is-it-possible-to-include-files-in-commonmark/4128/2 "2022-04-22T23:32:01Z")
This isn’t part of the core spec, but there is a topic to discuss a file transclusion extension: > [@Transclusion or including sub-documents for reuse](https://talk.commonmark.org/t/transclusion-or-including-sub-documents-for-reuse/270/): > > Coming from Foswiki, and now working on Docker documentation in markdown, I stongly miss having built in transclusion. If there’s any chance something basic can be included in Standrd Markdown - ala [http://fletcher.github.io/MultiMarkdown-4/transclusion](http://fletcher.github.io/MultiMarkdown-4/transclusion) that would be awesome - copy and paste is such a painfully pointless excercise… ---
**Author:** ![anon20778841](https://cdn.commonmark.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v2/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@anon20778841](https://talk.commonmark.org/u/anon20778841)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2022, 4:27am UTC](https://talk.commonmark.org/t/is-it-possible-to-include-files-in-commonmark/4128/3 "2022-04-24T04:27:48Z")
@chrisalley Hi! How are you? So… thank you for feedback ---
**Author:** ![vas](https://cdn.commonmark.org/user_avatar/talk.commonmark.org/vas/32/1267_2.png) [@vas](https://talk.commonmark.org/u/vas)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2022, 6:01pm UTC](https://talk.commonmark.org/t/is-it-possible-to-include-files-in-commonmark/4128/4 "2022-04-26T18:01:21Z")
You might find [Markdown and including multiple files](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4779582/markdown-and-including-multiple-files) on StackOverflow useful. It appears to be [a long running want-to-have for Pandoc](https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/553). I’m pretty sure some Static Site Generators support such inclusion using proprietary syntax extensions. ---
**Author:** ![anon20778841](https://cdn.commonmark.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v2/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@anon20778841](https://talk.commonmark.org/u/anon20778841)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2022, 4:22am UTC](https://talk.commonmark.org/t/is-it-possible-to-include-files-in-commonmark/4128/5 "2022-04-27T04:22:28Z")
> [@anon20778841](#): > > thank you for feedback thank you so much… ^^ you are amazing ---
**Author:** ![vas](https://cdn.commonmark.org/user_avatar/talk.commonmark.org/vas/32/1267_2.png) [@vas](https://talk.commonmark.org/u/vas)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2023, 12:50pm UTC](https://talk.commonmark.org/t/is-it-possible-to-include-files-in-commonmark/4128/6 "2023-07-20T12:50:15Z")
IA Writer introduced [transclusion support in IA Writer 4](https://ia.net/topics/ia-writer-4) in late 2016. They even [wrote a spec for it with the hope for community adoption](https://github.com/iainc/Markdown-Content-Blocks).