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Markdown to HTML - Full Document, ChatGPT Theme

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Demonstrates how to convert a complete Markdown document to HTML using the pre-defined "ChatGPT" theme. The "ChatGPT" theme produces a full HTML document including:

  • Document Type Declaration (e.g. <!DOCTYPE html>)
  • Root Element (e.g., <html> )
  • Head Section
  • Enclosing <body> and </body> elements
  • Closing </html> element

The Head Section includes style definitions that display the HTML in a style similar to the ChatGPT app. (How did Chilkat do it? We simply asked ChatGPT to generate CSS that is similar in style to the HTML displayed in the ChatGPT app.)

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Dim success As Boolean = False

' Select the pre-defined "ChatGPT" style.
Dim options As New Chilkat.JsonObject
options.UpdateString("theme","ChatGPT")

' We can also set an option for the max-width, which by default is "72ch".
options.UpdateString("ChatGPT.max-width","120ch")

Dim sbMarkdown As New Chilkat.StringBuilder
Dim sbHtml As New Chilkat.StringBuilder

success = sbMarkdown.LoadFile("qa_data/markdown/test1.md","utf-8")
If (success = False) Then
    Debug.WriteLine(sbMarkdown.LastErrorText)
    Exit Sub
End If


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

Debug.WriteLine(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:
' 
' To add code syntax highlighting, see the example at Markdown to HTML - Full Document, ChatGPT Theme with Code Syntax Highlighting

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