showdownjs/showdown

Load a external Markdown File.

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#682 opened on Apr 14, 2019

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Description

Well, I think the title is self explanatory ^^\

I have a Markdown File named "article.md", and want use this file inside of my html.

# Hello World!
Lorem Ipsum
- Lorem Ipsum

<h1>Hello World!</h1>
<p>Lorem Ipsum</p>
<ul>
    <li>Lorem Ipsum</li>
</ul>

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Research direction
Investigate how showdown currently accepts input (string) and look into adding a method to fetch and convert a Markdown file from a URL or local path. Consider using fetch or XMLHttpRequest for loading. Ensure the method handles async conversion.
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javascript
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tooling
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