showdownjs/showdown

Clean markdown characters, leave only clean text.

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#829 opened on Sep 25, 2020

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Description

I want to make an html element on my website that is responsible for displaying news articles. I am only displaying title and sample of the article content as preview.If user wants to read full article he can switch mode to see all the content with markdown parsed as html.

Value of the article content is stored as markdown and is converted to HTML on the client side.

I would like to make sample of article content as simple as it can be, stripped of any special markdown characters. Is there any simple solution to strip these characters and leave only simple text?

Isomorphic-Router-Demo-news-preview

Isomorphic-Router-Demo-news-fullview

Is it worth to make an extension for such usecase?

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Tech stack
javascript
Domain
frontendcontent
Issue type
feature
DifficultyEstimated implementation difficulty for a new contributor, from 1 for very small changes to 5 for expert-level work.
2
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half day
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stale
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unclear
Prerequisites
JavaScript fundamentals
Newbie friendlinessA 1-100 score estimating how approachable this issue is for first-time contributors.
30
Research direction
Review the Showdown extension API to determine if a simple extension can strip markdown characters while preserving plain text. Look for any existing methods or utilities in the codebase that handle plain text extraction, such as showdown's internal parsing. Consider creating a new extension that uses regex to remove common markdown syntax (bold, italics, links, etc.). Also check if the library's 'makeHtml' or 'stripHtml' method can be adapted or extended for this purpose.