From Daring Fireball's Markdown doc
Note that Markdown formatting syntax is not processed within block-level HTML tags. E.g., you can’t use Markdown-style emphasis inside an HTML block.
I want to wrap some markdown in div tags and still get it to process that markdown. Is there a way to do this with a switch or something?
e.g
<div>
* * *
The asterisks would still become an <hr/>
</div>
I'm using RDiscount as the markdown filter. Any help is much appreciated.
Maruku supports Markdown inside HTML blocks.
I gave Halst the points for the answer as it's correct, but I encountered several problems with using Maruku in this way, such as it stripping out unicode and reformatting existent html that I didn't want it to touch and caused problems. So, I had to sort it out myself and this is what I came up with:
# encoding: UTF-8
module MarkdownFilters
# This finds html tags with "markdown='1'" as an attribute, runs markdown over the contents, then removes the markdown attribute
class InsideBlock
require 'hpricot'
def self.run( content, markdown_parser=nil )
if markdown_parser.nil?
require 'rdiscount'
markdown_parser=RDiscount
end
doc = Hpricot(content)
(doc/"*[@markdown='1']").each do |ele|
ele.inner_html = markdown_parser.new(ele.inner_html).to_html
ele.remove_attribute("markdown")
end
doc.to_s
end # run
end # class
end # module
I stole the idea of marking the html with a "markdown='1'" attribute from Maruku, so it can be interchanged with it.