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Delphi ActiveX 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.

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var
success: Integer;
options: TChilkatJsonObject;
sbHead: TChilkatStringBuilder;
bCrlf: Integer;
sbMarkdown: TChilkatStringBuilder;
sbHtml: TChilkatStringBuilder;

begin
success := 0;

success := 0;

options := TChilkatJsonObject.Create(Self);

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

sbHead := TChilkatStringBuilder.Create(Self);
bCrlf := 1;
sbHead.AppendLine('<head>',bCrlf);
sbHead.AppendLine('<style>',bCrlf);
sbHead.AppendLine('body {',bCrlf);
sbHead.AppendLine('  font-family: "Segoe UI", Tahoma, Geneva, Verdana, sans-serif;',bCrlf);
sbHead.AppendLine('}',bCrlf);
sbHead.AppendLine('</style>',bCrlf);
sbHead.AppendLine('</head>',bCrlf);

//  Each HTML section can be set individually.
options.UpdateString('docType','<!DOCTYPE html>');
options.UpdateString('rootElement','<html lang="en">');
options.UpdateString('head',sbHead.GetAsString());
options.UpdateString('bodyStart','<body>' + #10 + '<div id="content"');
options.UpdateString('bodyEnd','</div>' + #10 + '</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.UpdateString('extraHead','<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/prism/1.29.0/themes/prism-coy.min.css" />');
options.UpdateString('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>');

sbMarkdown := TChilkatStringBuilder.Create(Self);
sbHtml := TChilkatStringBuilder.Create(Self);

success := sbMarkdown.LoadFile('qa_data/markdown/test1.md','utf-8');
if (success = 0) then
  begin
    Memo1.Lines.Add(sbMarkdown.LastErrorText);
    Exit;
  end;

sbMarkdown.MarkdownToHtml(options.ControlInterface,sbHtml.ControlInterface);
sbHtml.ToCRLF();

Memo1.Lines.Add(sbHtml.GetAsString());

//  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:

//  image