Turn a markdown string into an HTML element, using the defaultOptions.

intro : Element
intro =
    Markdown.toElement """


# Time Travel Made Easy


Elm Reactor grew out of my internship working on Elm at Prezi this summer...


"""

Turn a markdown string into an HTML element, using the defaultOptions.

bodyParagraph : Html
bodyParagraph =
    Markdown.toHtml """


# Changing History


In addition to time travel, Elm Reactor lets you change history...


"""

Some parser options so you can tweak things for your particular case.

* githubFlavored — overall reasonable improvements on the original markdown parser as described here. This includes stuff like fenced code blocks. There are some odd parts though, such as tables and a setting to turn all newlines into newlines in the resulting output, so there are settings to turn those on or off based on your preference.

* defaultHighlighting — a default language to use for code blocks that do not have a language tag. So setting this to Just "elm" will treat all unlabeled code blocks as Elm code. (This relies on highlight.js as explained in the README here.)

* sanitize — this determines if all HTML should be escaped. If you are parsing user markdown or user input can somehow reach the markdown parser, you should almost certainly turn on sanitation. If it is just you writing markdown, turning sanitation off is a nice way to do some HTML tricks if it is needed.

* smartypants — This will automatically upgrade quotes to the prettier versions and turn dashes into em dashes or en dashes

The Options used by the toElement and toHtml functions.

{ githubFlavored = Just { tables = False, breaks = False }
, defaultHighlighting = Nothing
, sanitize = False
, smartypants = False
}

Maybe you want to get prettier quotes with a simple syntax. You can use modified parsing options.

options : Options
options =
    { defaultOptions | smartypants <- True }


toSmartElement : String -> Element
toSmartElement markdown =
    Markdown.toElementWith options markdown

Maybe you want to parse user input into markdown. To stop them from adding <script> tags, you can use modified parsing options.

options : Options
options =
    { defaultOptions | sanitize <- True }


toMarkdown : String -> Html
toMarkdown userInput =
    Markdown.toHtmlWith options userInput