/markdown-preview

Markdown Preview Plus -- Enables Chrome to render markdown files as HTML

Primary LanguageJavaScript

Markdown Preview Plus

Automatically parses markdown files (.md) into HTML. This is useful if you're writing markdown (ultimately targeting HTML) and want a quick preview.

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Features

  1. Support auto reload.
  2. Support external css file.
  3. You can change theme for each single md file.
  4. Support github flavored markdown.

Usage

  1. Install extension from webstore (creates no new UI)
  2. Check "Allow access to file URLs" in chrome://extensions listing: fileurls
  3. Open local or remote .md file in Chrome.
  4. See nicely formatted HTML!

Release Notes

0.3

  • Support github flavored markdown.
  • Change the markdown parser from showdown to marked.

0.2.7

  • Fix a bug for "Export Html"

0.2.6

  • Support code highlight. Thanks Mogztter.
  • Update Showdown.js to latest version. This version of Showdown.js supports "Github flavored Markdown" for code. Thanks Mogztter again.
  • Update jquery.js to 1.9.1
  • Fix a bug for auto reload.

Changelog

  • 0.2.5 Fix a bug when add new css.
  • 0.2.4 Add .mkd extension.
  • 0.2.3 New button for export html file.
  • 0.2.2 Add a list of the supported file extensions in the options page. Support new file extension .txt
  • 0.2.1 Add browser icon. You can change theme for each single md file.
  • 0.2 New UI for options page. You can upload custom css files.
  • 0.1.1 Do not render if file's Content-Type is 'text/html'.
  • 0.1 Support auto reload. Support external css file.

Thanks

Thanks to Kevin Burke for his markdown-friendly stylesheet, to John Fraser for his [JavaScript markdown processor][showdown], to Boris Smus for his Markdown Preview and to Swartz and Gruber for Markdown.