How to avoid IconLink.internal removing the index.html file?

[hmf]

For the top navigation bar I am using this configuration:

    .topNavigationBar(
      // homeLink undefined, so use landing page
      navLinks = Seq(
        IconLink.internal(
          Root / "api" / "index.html",
          HeliumIcon.api,
          options = Styles("svg-link")
        ),
        IconLink.external(
          browsableLink,
          HeliumIcon.github,
          options = Styles("svg-link")
        )
      )

When I open the page locally I have the URL:

file:///mnt/ssd2/hmf/IdeaProjects/storch/out/docs/laikaLocal.dest/site/api/

This is correct because the root is:

file:///mnt/ssd2/hmf/IdeaProjects/storch/out/docs/laikaLocal.dest/site

I would like however to retain the index.html to allow for local browsing. Is this possible? Note that I am not using the pretty urls plugin.

TIA

[jenshalm]

The PrettyURLs bundle is different, it changes foo.html into foo/index.html so that no link has any .html extension.

For the base case where targets which are already named index.html have the URLs trimmed there is no configuration option to toggle this behaviour (and unfortunately it's a bit too complicated to justify a new option for this & you are also the first to ever ask for this). Which means the remaining option is to customize the renderer for SpanLink as described in https://typelevel.org/Laika/latest/04-customizing-laika/06-overriding-renderers.html

[hmf]

Thank you.