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Lua Requires Chilkat v11.2.0+

Markdown to HTML - Full Document, ChatGPT Theme with Code Syntax Highlighting

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Demonstrates how to convert a complete Markdown document to HTML using the pre-defined "ChatGPT" theme but also with Cloudfare Prism's code syntax highlighting.

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local chilkat = require("chilkat")

local success = false

-- Select the pre-defined "ChatGPT" style.
local options = chilkat.JsonObject.new()
options:update_string("theme", "ChatGPT")

-- We can also set an option for the max-width, which by default is "72ch".
options:update_string("ChatGPT.max-width", "120ch")

-- We can add extra content to the bottom of the HTML head and body sections like this:
-- Here we are using the "tomorrow" theme.
options:update_string("extraHead", "<link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/prism/1.29.0/themes/prism-tomorrow.min.css\" />")
options:update_string("extraBody", "<script src=\"https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/prism/1.29.0/prism.min.js\"></script><script src =\"https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/prism/1.29.0/plugins/autoloader/prism-autoloader.min.js\"></script>")

local sbMarkdown = chilkat.StringBuilder.new()
local sbHtml = chilkat.StringBuilder.new()

success = sbMarkdown:load_file("qa_data/markdown/test1.md", "utf-8")
if not success then
    print(sbMarkdown.last_error_text)
    return
end

sbMarkdown:markdown_to_html(options, sbHtml)
sbHtml:to_crlf()

print(sbHtml:get_as_string())

-- The sample markdown input for this example is identical to the one at Markdown to HTML - Full Document, Raw, where you can view it.

-- Sample HTML output as viewed in a browser:

-- image