classicvalues / postcss-markdown

PostCSS Syntax for parsing Markdown

PostCSS Markdown Syntax

PostCSS Syntax for parsing Markdown

Getting Started

First thing's first, install the module:

npm install postcss-syntax postcss-markdown --save-dev

If you want support SCSS/SASS/LESS/SugarSS syntax, you need to install the corresponding module.

• SCSS: postcss-scss
• SASS: postcss-sass
• LESS: postcss-less
• SugarSS: sugarss

Use Cases

var syntax = require('postcss-syntax')({
	// Enable support for HTML (default: true) See: https://github.com/gucong3000/postcss-html
	htmlInMd: true,
	// syntax for parse scss (non-required options)
	scss: require('postcss-scss'),
	// syntax for parse less (non-required options)
	less: require('postcss-less'),
	// syntax for parse css blocks (non-required options)
	css: require('postcss-safe-parser'),
});
var autoprefixer = require('autoprefixer');
postcss([ autoprefixer ]).process(source, { syntax: syntax }).then(function (result) {
	// An alias for the result.css property. Use it with syntaxes that generate non-CSS output.
	result.content
});

input:

# title

```css
::placeholder {
	color: gray;
}
```

output:

# title

```css
::-webkit-input-placeholder {
	color: gray;
}
:-ms-input-placeholder {
	color: gray;
}
::-ms-input-placeholder {
	color: gray;
}
::placeholder {
	color: gray;
}
```

If you want support SCSS/SASS/LESS/SugarSS syntax, you need to install these module:

• SCSS: postcss-scss
• SASS: postcss-sass
• LESS: postcss-less
• SugarSS: sugarss

Advanced Use Cases

See: postcss-syntax

Style Transformations

The main use case of this plugin is apply PostCSS transformations to CSS (and CSS-like) code blocks in markdown file.