Markdown Not Completely Working

Yii 2.0 General Discussions
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Today I decided to give cebe’s markdown a try and I couldn’t get it to fully work. I used github markdown and when I try to display some code specific syntax all I get is <pre> formatting. Do I have to explicitely register additional assets in order to get code syntax displayed properly? I tried this




```javascript

var s = "JavaScript syntax highlighting";

alert(s);









taken directly from github cheatsheet but all i get is grey background with text (no code specific highlighting). I wonder if I am missing anything. I read through the documentation and couldn't find any info about it except for how to parse it on Yii side.





Thanks
2

There are some differences between traditional markdown and github-flavoured one.

3

Thanks for the quick reply ORey. Still there something wrong somewhere.

I tried:




```ruby

require 'redcarpet'

markdown = Redcarpet.new("Hello World!")

puts markdown.to_html









and 









function test() {

  console.log("notice the blank line before this function?");

}









both copied from the link you provided and both give me the same result. No ruby specific highlighting. It is either I am missing something or the markdown extension is not fully working or missing instructions.
4

I also checked in the console and I can see the following code:




<pre><code class="language-ruby">require 'redcarpet'

markdown = Redcarpet.new("Hello World!")

puts markdown.to_html

</code></pre>

so the language specific class has been applied. It seems like only the assets are missing.

5

I see.

First of all, seems like github syntax is actually supported:




// use github

$parser = new \cebe\markdown\GithubMarkdown();

$parser->parse($markdown);

and here’s the example of extending for fenced code blocks:

Sorry, I havent used it by myself yet, but seems like it’s highly customizable.

I think Carsten Brandt can shed some light on it.

6

You need to add a syntax highlighting JS plugin separately (cebe’s parser does not include the syntax highlighter). This is discussed in this issue.

7

Highlighting is to be implemented. Currently the best option is to use something like https://github.com/isagalaev/highlight.js

8

Thanks guys.

@samdark, why is this the best option? maturity? stability? ease of use? Thanks

9

Because it doesn’t require to modify markdown parser + library itself is of very good quality. We’re considering using its PHP port by default.