markdown-it-inline-wrapper

There are already markdown-it plugins for adding divs or containers, but those require line breaks and that breaks how lists work in markdown. There isn't a TON of need for this specific plugin, and in most cases I'd recommend using markdown-it-span. That said, I needed this plugin to make more lists a little more semantic. I wanted to wrap the contents of a list item to work with a ::before pseudo-element in a grid layout. A span would have worked fine here, but really this should be a block level element and not an inline element.

In the future, I'd like to build this to allow you to pass the element that you'd like to use div or span.

Quick Look

==this is wrapped in a div== will output <div>this is wrapped in a div</div>

Markup uses the same conditions as CommonMark emphasis. Basically, that means, you can wrap divs inside of divs, but you can also use ==== to get two divs.

Install

node.js

npm install markdown-it-inline-wrapper --save

Use

var md = require('markdown-it')()
            .use(require('markdown-it-inline-wrapper'));

md.render('==this is wrapped in a div==') // => '<p><div>this is wrapped in a div</div></p>'

OR

const markdownIt = require('markdown-it');
const markdownItInlineWrapper = require('markdown-it-inline-wrapper');

var md = markdownIt().use(markdownItInlineDiv);

md.render('==this is wrapped in a div==') // => '<p><div>this is wrapped in a div</div></p>'

Differences in browser. If you load script directly into the page, without package system, module will add itself globally as window.markdownItInlineWrapper.

License

MIT