This page documents “Markdown Extra”, an extension of Markdown that I use on my website. I'm blogging about this because the section “Markdown Inside HTML Blocks” shows how to tell the Markdown parser that I have Markdown nested inside HTML blocks.
This is particularly useful because sometimes I like to include code blocks inside the HTML tag <details>.
The link shows that I have to add the attribute markdown="1" to the HTML tag that will contain nested Markdown and the parser takes care of the rest (and removes the attribute).
Here's a tag <details> that uses the attribute in the source code:
print("Hello, world!")Here's what the same HTML + Markdown combo will look like without the correct Markdown Extra attribute: