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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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function chilkatExample() {

    var success = false;

    success = false;

    var options = new chilkat.JsonObject();

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

    var sbHead = new chilkat.StringBuilder();
    var bCrlf = true;
    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>\n<div id=\"content\"");
    options.UpdateString("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.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>");

    var sbMarkdown = new chilkat.StringBuilder();
    var sbHtml = new chilkat.StringBuilder();

    success = sbMarkdown.LoadFile("qa_data/markdown/test1.md","utf-8");
    if (success == false) {
        console.log(sbMarkdown.LastErrorText);
        return;
    }

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

    console.log(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

}

chilkatExample();