micromark-extension-gfm-strikethrough

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micromark extensions to support GFM strikethrough.

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What is this?

This package contains extensions that add support for strikethrough as enabled
by GFM to micromark.

When to use this

This project is useful when you want to support strikethrough in markdown.

You can use these extensions when you are working with micromark.
To support all GFM features, use
micromark-extension-gfm.

When you need a syntax tree, you can combine this package with
mdast-util-gfm-strikethrough.

All these packages are used remark-gfm, which focusses on making
it easier to transform content by abstracting these internals away.

Install

This package is ESM only.
In Node.js (version 16+), install with npm:

npm install micromark-extension-gfm-strikethrough

In Deno with esm.sh:

import {gfmStrikethrough, gfmStrikethroughHtml} from 'https://esm.sh/micromark-extension-gfm-strikethrough@2'

In browsers with esm.sh:

<script type="module">
  import {gfmStrikethrough, gfmStrikethroughHtml} from 'https://esm.sh/micromark-extension-gfm-strikethrough@2?bundle'
</script>

Use

import {micromark} from 'micromark'
import {
  gfmStrikethrough,
  gfmStrikethroughHtml
} from 'micromark-extension-gfm-strikethrough'

const output = micromark('Some ~strikethrough~.', {
  extensions: [gfmStrikethrough()],
  htmlExtensions: [gfmStrikethroughHtml()]
})

console.log(output)

Yields:

<p>Some <del>strikethrough</del></p>.

API

This package exports the identifiers
gfmStrikethrough and
gfmStrikethroughHtml.
There is no default export.

The export map supports the development condition.
Run node --conditions development module.js to get instrumented dev code.
Without this condition, production code is loaded.

gfmStrikethrough(options?)

Create an extension for micromark to enable GFM strikethrough syntax.

Parameters
  • options (Options, optional)
    — configuration
Returns

Extension for micromark that can be passed in extensions, to
enable GFM strikethrough syntax (Extension).

gfmStrikethroughHtml()

Create an HTML extension for micromark to support GFM strikethrough when
serializing to HTML.

Returns

Extension for micromark that can be passed in htmlExtensions, to support
GFM strikethrough when serializing to HTML
(HtmlExtension).

Options

Configuration (TypeScript type).

Fields
  • singleTilde (boolean, default: true)
    — whether to support strikethrough with a single tilde.
    Single tildes work on github.com, but are technically prohibited by the GFM
    spec

Authoring

When authoring markdown with strikethrough, it is recommended to use two
markers.
While github.com allows single tildes too, it technically prohibits it in
their spec.

HTML

When tilde sequences match, they together relate to the <del> element in
HTML.
See § 4.7.2 The del element in the HTML spec for more info.

CSS

GitHub itself does not apply interesting CSS to del elements.
It currently (July 2022) does change code in del.

del code {
  text-decoration: inherit;
}

For the complete actual CSS see
sindresorhus/github-markdown-css.

Syntax

Strikethrough sequences form with the following BNF:

gfm_attention_sequence ::= 1*'~'

Sequences are matched together to form strikethrough based on which character
they contain, how long they are, and what character occurs before and after
each sequence.
Otherwise they are turned into data.

Types

This package is fully typed with TypeScript.
It exports the additional type Options.

Compatibility

Projects maintained by the unified collective are compatible with maintained
versions of Node.js.

When we cut a new major release, we drop support for unmaintained versions of
Node.
This means we try to keep the current release line,
micromark-extension-gfm-strikethrough@^2, compatible with Node.js 16.

This package works with micromark version 3 and later.

Security

This package is safe.

Contribute

See contributing.md in micromark/.github for ways to get
started.
See support.md for ways to get help.

This project has a code of conduct.
By interacting with this repository, organization, or community you agree to
abide by its terms.

License

MIT © Titus Wormer

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