IgnoredClasses

Learn about how to ignore HTML classes.

StylesPath = styles

IgnoredClasses = my-class, another-class

[*.md]
BasedOnStyles = Vale

IgnoredClasses names HTML classes whose content Vale won't lint. The classes may appear on inline- or block-level elements.

By default, Vale ignores problematic, pre, and code.

Unlike IgnoredScopes and SkippedScopes, which replace their defaults when you set them, IgnoredClasses adds to the list. The three defaults above stay ignored whatever you set.

This is most useful for content a documentation tool generates, where the markup carries classes the prose doesn't control:

# Sphinx marks unresolved references this way; there's no point
# spell-checking them.
IgnoredClasses = problematic, guilabel, menuselection

Because this key matches classes rather than tags, it's the one to reach for when what you want to skip isn't a distinct element—an inline <span> among other <span>s, say.

Related: IgnoredScopes SkippedScopes