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| Write | Get |
|---|---|
# Title, ## Section | Headings (levels 1 to 6) |
**bold**, *italic*, ~~strike~~ | bold, italic, |
[text](https://…) | A link; bare URLs are linked too |
- item or 1. item | Bulleted or numbered list Indent by 2 to 4 spaces to nest. |
- [ ] todo, - [x] done | Task list |
| a | b | then |---|---| | Table---: right-aligns a column. |
> quote | Block quote |
| Three backticks + language | Fenced code block |
 | Image from a public URL |
GitHub Flavored Markdown: headings, emphasis, links and bare URLs, nested lists, task lists, tables with column alignment, block quotes, fenced code blocks, strikethrough, horizontal rules and images. Raw HTML in the Markdown passes through unchanged. Code blocks get a language-js style class from the fence, ready for highlight.js or Prism, but are not colored here. Not part of GFM and left as text: footnotes, math ($…$), Mermaid diagrams and [[wiki links]].
The parser used here is marked. In Node: npm i marked, then import { marked } from 'marked'; const html = marked.parse(markdownText);. From the command line, npx marked -i README.md -o README.html writes the HTML fragment. To turn that HTML into a PDF or a PNG on a server without installing Chromium, send it to the Shotmint API: POST https://shotmint.creasework.com/v1/pdf with {"html": "…"} returns a PDF with selectable text (1 credit; €5 buys 2,000, credits never expire). The Markdown to PDF page has a complete script.
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Is my text uploaded? No. Parsing and the preview both happen in your browser; this page sends nothing to a server.
Is the HTML output sanitized? No: raw HTML in your Markdown is copied into the output as written, like most Markdown tools do. If you render Markdown written by other people on your own site, run the HTML through a sanitizer such as DOMPurify first.
Why do my images not show? An image needs a public http(s) URL. A relative path like ./img/logo.png only exists next to the file on your computer.
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