Check out the demo page to see Marked in action ⛹️
Our documentation pages are also rendered using marked 💯
Also read about:
Node.js: Only current and LTS Node.js versions are supported. End of life Node.js versions may become incompatible with Marked at any point in time.
Browser: Baseline Widely Available
CLI:
npm install -g marked
In-browser:
npm install marked
DOMPurify.sanitize(marked.parse(`<img src="x" onerror="alert('not happening')">`));
CLI
# Example with stdin input
$ marked -o hello.html
hello world
^D
$ cat hello.html
<p>hello world</p>
# Print all options
$ marked --help
Node.js
import { marked } from 'marked';
const html = marked.parse('# Marked in Node.js');
console.log(html);
Browser
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8"/>
<title>Marked in the browser</title>
</head>
<body>
<div id="content"></div>
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/marked/lib/marked.umd.js"></script>
<script>
document.getElementById('content').innerHTML =
marked.parse('# Marked in the browser\n\nRendered by **marked**.');
</script>
</body>
</html>
or import esm module
<script type="module">
import { marked } from "https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/marked/lib/marked.esm.js";
document.getElementById('content').innerHTML =
marked.parse('# Marked in the browser\n\nRendered by **marked**.');
</script>
Copyright (c) 2018+, MarkedJS. (MIT License) Copyright (c) 2011-2018, Christopher Jeffrey. (MIT License)
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FAQs
A markdown parser built for speed
The npm package marked receives a total of 52,758,821 weekly downloads. As such, marked popularity was classified as popular.
We found that marked demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 4 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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