^{Originally posted by pjotrhey November 15, 2025}

Description

Hi all,

Based on the documentation, it seems that when embedding an external notebook you can redirect the notebook link to any arbitrary URL using the url field in notebook-view. I’ve tried this, but it does not work for me: the link still points to the local *-preview.html file instead of the URL provided. This is my rendered result: https://pjotrhey.github.io/

Example
I have hosted a full minimal example in a repo, see: https://github.com/pjotrhey/quarto-notebook-url-error The mainfile index.qmd is:

---
title: "Notebook URL demo"
format: html
notebook-view:
  - notebook: penguins.ipynb
    url: "https://quarto.org"
    title: "Open Quarto.org"
---

{{< embed penguins.ipynb#species-counts echo=true >}}

With this setup, the “Open notebook” link in the rendered HTML still points to the preview page (penguins-preview.html) instead of the URL specified in notebook-view.

Has anyone else run into this issue, or am I doing something (horribly) wrong?

Quartion version: 1.8.26 on Windows 11.

Thanks in advance!