Visual FoxPro

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

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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LOCAL lnSuccess
LOCAL loOptions
LOCAL loSbHead
LOCAL lnBCrlf
LOCAL loSbMarkdown
LOCAL loSbHtml

lnSuccess = 0

lnSuccess = 0

loOptions = CreateObject('Chilkat.JsonObject')

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

loSbHead = CreateObject('Chilkat.StringBuilder')
lnBCrlf = 1
loSbHead.AppendLine("<head>",lnBCrlf)
loSbHead.AppendLine("<style>",lnBCrlf)
loSbHead.AppendLine("body {",lnBCrlf)
loSbHead.AppendLine('  font-family: "Segoe UI", Tahoma, Geneva, Verdana, sans-serif;',lnBCrlf)
loSbHead.AppendLine("}",lnBCrlf)
loSbHead.AppendLine("</style>",lnBCrlf)
loSbHead.AppendLine("</head>",lnBCrlf)

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

loSbMarkdown = CreateObject('Chilkat.StringBuilder')
loSbHtml = CreateObject('Chilkat.StringBuilder')

lnSuccess = loSbMarkdown.LoadFile("qa_data/markdown/test1.md","utf-8")
IF (lnSuccess = 0) THEN
    ? loSbMarkdown.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loOptions
    RELEASE loSbHead
    RELEASE loSbMarkdown
    RELEASE loSbHtml
    CANCEL
ENDIF

loSbMarkdown.MarkdownToHtml(loOptions,loSbHtml)
loSbHtml.ToCRLF()

? loSbHtml.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:

* 

RELEASE loOptions
RELEASE loSbHead
RELEASE loSbMarkdown
RELEASE loSbHtml