Adding support for markdown within HTML tags

[fredleblanc]

We've recently included Parsedown (Extra) into Statamic (and, by the way, I love it, it's so quick and does a much, much better job of handling the weird edge cases).

Anyway, someone has submitted a ticket to our support system asking about support in Parsedown (Extra) for markdown="1" for parsing within HTML elements. (It's part of Markdown Extra).

So, I'm here doing my due diligence. Is this feature something on the Parsedown Extra roadmap for implementation? Is it perhaps already implemented but slightly different syntax from Markdown Extra?

Thanks for your time (and for such an awesome markdown parser).
Fred

[jackmcdade]

👍

[erusev]

Is this feature something on the Parsedown Extra roadmap for implementation?

It is. I've been working on it.

[fredleblanc]

Yessss, fantastic. Thank you!

[lakhman]

+1
This would be a great feature! its one of the few things missing from what I can tell!
Thanks!

[fxck]

+1

Do want.

[jeffreydking]

+1

[olivier]

Great, thanks !

[fxck]

Is there any actual roadmap? This and https://michelf.ca/projects/php-markdown/extra/#spe-attr would be great..

[DevCharly]

+1

[prigal]

+1

[jeffreydking]

One caveat. The contents of script tags should never be parsed.

[icylace]

+1

[erusev]

The latest commit (7578fe2) tries to address this. It is not a complete solution. It won't work on nested tags and, since I haven't had much time to test it or write tests for it, I can't guarantee it's stable.

[bzerangue]

+1

[bzerangue]

@erusev - now that you have added this, it seems to working properly!!! Thank you so much for adding this feature to Parsedown Extra!!!!!!

[puckey]

+1 for nested tags support

[adeniszczyc]

+1

[mnapoli]

+1!

When this is nested is another HTML node, it doesn't work:

<div>
    This is *true* markdown text.
    <div markdown="1">
        This is *true* markdown text.
    </div>
</div>

Try it on http://parsedown.org/extra/

[lyrixx]

I have the same need too.

[erusev]

We are working on it.

[lyrixx]

Thanks ;)

[kleinsch]

+1

[erusev]

I believe that the latest release resolves this.

[lakhman]

Awesome!! Thanks so much!! I'm gonna update now! 👍

[erusev]

Ok, it does work for tags that are nested in tags that have markdown=1, but it still doesn't work for tags that are nested in tags that don't have it.

I'm reopening this.

[erusev]

Ok, now it should always work.

[samuelgfeller]

Ok, now it should always work.

It does not for me now when I don't specifically add markdown="1" to every HTML block.. am I doing something wrong?

This is my code:

$markdown = 'Link: [parsedown](https://parsedown.org/)

<div markdown="1">
Link: [parsedown](https://parsedown.org/)  
</div>

<div>
Link: [parsedown](https://parsedown.org/)  
</div>

<details>
<summary><b>Click to see</b></summary>

## Title  
Link: [parsedown](https://parsedown.org/)   
Code: `codeblock`  
</details>
';

$parser = new ParsedownExtra();
echo $parser->text($markdown);

This is the HTML I get:

<p>Link: <a href="https://parsedown.org/">parsedown</a></p>
<div>
<p>Link: <a href="https://parsedown.org/">parsedown</a>  </p>
</div>
<div>
Link: [parsedown](https://parsedown.org/)  
</div>
<details>
<summary><b>Click to see</b></summary>

## Title  
Link: [parsedown](https://parsedown.org/)   
Code: `codeblock`  
</details>