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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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Dim success As Boolean = False

success = False

Dim options As New Chilkat.JsonObject

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

Dim sbHead As New Chilkat.StringBuilder
Dim bCrlf As Boolean = 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>" & vbLf & "<div id=""content""")
options.UpdateString("bodyEnd","</div>" & vbLf & "</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>")

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:

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