MarkdigExtensions

Some useful extensions to the Markdig Markdown processor.

MarkdigExtensions.UrlRewriter

Allows you to rewrite URLs in link and image tags. It's reason for existence was the need to convert local image paths to a path on the webserver, but it's flexible enough to rewrite any link or image URL.

Example

using Markdig;

var pipeline = new MarkdownPipelineBuilder()
    .UseUrlRewriter(link => link.Url.Replace("http://", "https://"))
    .Build();

var markdown = "[Anchor](http://example.net), ![Image](http://example.com/img.png)";
var html = Markdown.ToHtml(markdown, pipeline);

Result: <p><a href="https://example.net">Anchor</a>, <img src="https://example.com/img.png" alt="Image" /></p>

MarkdigExtensions.ImageAsFigure

Wraps all images inside a <figure> element with a <figcaption> set to the title of the image. You can choose to only wrap images where a title is set by providing the onlyWithTitle argument set to true.

Example

using Markdig;

var pipeline = new MarkdownPipelineBuilder()
    .UseImageAsFigure()
    .Build();

var markdown = "![Alt-text](https://example.com/img.png \"Image title text\")";
var html = Markdown.ToHtml(markdown, pipeline);

This will result in the following HTML:

<p>
    <figure>
    	<img src="https://example.com/img.png" alt="Alt-text" title="Image title text" />
        <figcaption>Image title text</figcaption>
    </figure>
</p>

You can choose to only surround an image where a title is provided with a <figure> tag by using .UseImageAsFigure(onlyWithTitle: true). Here's the output for ![Alt-text](https://example.com/img.png) with both values:

• onlyWithTitle = false (default)

  <figure>
      <img src="https://example.com/img.png" alt="Alt-text" />
  </figure>

• onlyWithTitle = true

  <img src="https://example.com/img.png" alt="Alt-text" />

MarkdigExtensions.SyntaxHighlighting

Uses ColorCode-Universal to add syntax highlighting to fenced code blocks. Check out their LanguageId.cs file to get a list of all supported languages, code blocks with an unsupported language or no language specified will be rendered using the standard renderer.

Example

using Markdig;

var pipeline = new MarkdownPipelineBuilder()
    .UseSyntaxHighlighting()
    .Build();

var markdown = "```f# \nprintfn \"Hello, %s!\" \"world\" \n``` \n";
var html = Markdown.ToHtml(markdown, pipeline);

Instead of a normal code block, this will render a code block with inline CSS to add the colorization:

<div style="color:#000000;background-color:#FFFFFF;"><pre>
	printfn <span style="color:#A31515;">&quot;Hello, %s!&quot;</span> <span style="color:#A31515;">&quot;world&quot;</span>
</pre></div>

You can specify a custom color scheme by providing a StyleDictionary:

using Markdig;
using ColorCode.Styling;

var pipeline = new MarkdownPipelineBuilder()
    .UseSyntaxHighlighting(StyleDictionary.DefaultDark)
    .Build();