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node-markdown
Advanced tools
node-markdown is based on Showdown parser and is meant to parse Markdown syntax into HTML code.
Use npm
package manager
npm install node-markdown
Include Markdown parser
var md = require("node-markdown").Markdown;
Parse Markdown syntax into HTML
var html = md("**markdown** string");
Allow only default set of HTML tags to be used
var html = md("**markdown** string", true);
Allow only specified HTML tags to be used (default set of allowed attributes is used)
var html = md("**markdown** string", true, "p|strong|span");
Allow specified HTML tags and specified attributes
var html = md("**markdown** string", true, "p|strong|span", {
"a":"href", // 'href' for links
"*":"title|style" // 'title' and 'style' for all
});
Complete example
var md_text = "**bold** *italic* [link](http://www.neti.ee) `code block`",
md_parser = require("node-markdown").Markdown;
// simple
console.log(md_parser(md_text));
// limit HTML tags and attributes
console.log(md_parser(md_text, true, 'h1|p|span'));
// limit HTML tags and keep attributes for allowed tags
var allowedTags = 'a|img';
allowedAttributes = {
'a':'href|style',
'img': 'src',
'*': 'title'
}
console.log(md_parser(md_text, true, allowedTags, allowedAttributes));
FAQs
Parse Markdown syntax with node.js
The npm package node-markdown receives a total of 2,427 weekly downloads. As such, node-markdown popularity was classified as popular.
We found that node-markdown demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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