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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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require 'chilkat'

success = false

success = false

options = Chilkat::CkJsonObject.new()

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

sbHead = Chilkat::CkStringBuilder.new()
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>")

sbMarkdown = Chilkat::CkStringBuilder.new()
sbHtml = Chilkat::CkStringBuilder.new()

success = sbMarkdown.LoadFile("qa_data/markdown/test1.md","utf-8")
if (success == false)
    print sbMarkdown.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    exit
end

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

print sbHtml.getAsString() + "\n";

# 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