Lua Requires Chilkat v11.2.0+

Markdown to HTML - Full Document, Custom Theme with Code Syntax Highlighting

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Demonstrates how to convert a complete Markdown document to HTML using your own custom theme with Cloudfare Prism's code syntax highlighting. Lua

local chilkat = require("chilkat")

local success = false

local options = chilkat.JsonObject.new()

-- Instead of specifying a "theme", provide values for the HTML document parts.

local sbHead = chilkat.StringBuilder.new()
local bCrlf = true
sbHead:append_line("<head>", bCrlf)
sbHead:append_line("<style>", bCrlf)
sbHead:append_line("body {", bCrlf)
sbHead:append_line("  font-family: \"Segoe UI\", Tahoma, Geneva, Verdana, sans-serif;", bCrlf)
sbHead:append_line("}", bCrlf)
sbHead:append_line("</style>", bCrlf)
sbHead:append_line("</head>", bCrlf)

-- Each HTML section can be set individually.
options:update_string("docType", "<!DOCTYPE html>")
options:update_string("rootElement", "<html lang=\"en\">")
options:update_string("head", sbHead:get_as_string())
options:update_string("bodyStart", "<body>\n<div id=\"content\"")
options:update_string("bodyEnd", "</div>\n</body>")

-- We can add extra content to the bottom of the HTML head and body sections like this:
-- Here we are using the Cloudfare Prism "coy" theme for code syntax higlighting.
options:update_string("extraHead", "<link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/prism/1.29.0/themes/prism-coy.min.css\" />")
options:update_string("extraBody", "<script src=\"https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/prism/1.29.0/prism.min.js\"></script><script src =\"https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/prism/1.29.0/plugins/autoloader/prism-autoloader.min.js\"></script>")

local sbMarkdown = chilkat.StringBuilder.new()
local sbHtml = chilkat.StringBuilder.new()

success = sbMarkdown:load_file("qa_data/markdown/test1.md", "utf-8")
if not success then
    print(sbMarkdown.last_error_text)
    return
end

sbMarkdown:markdown_to_html(options, sbHtml)
sbHtml:to_crlf()

print(sbHtml:get_as_string())

-- The sample markdown input for this example is identical to the one at Markdown to HTML - Full Document, Raw, where you can view it.

-- Sample HTML output as viewed in a browser:

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