I'm working on a project with Meteor, and I want it to use markdown, and it was very nice to see that there is a package to do that with.
So I meteor added showdown, it worked, and now I can do something like
{{#markdown}}
#This is a header
this is a paragraph
{{/markdown}}
and it works just fine. But now I want to actually put something more interesting in there. First thought was to sync it up with a textarea. I tried three things. First, I tried this:
$('.preview').html('{{#markdown}}'+$('#text').val()+'{{/markdown}}');
Where .preview is a div that I want to html to show up in, and #text is the textarea where someone is typing. This doesn't work though, it just shows the {{#markdown}} and stuff.
Next, I tried to just set up the div like this:
<div class="preview">
{{#markdown}}
{{/markdown}}
</div>
And add to it with:
$('.preview').html('#Is this an H1?');
or
$('.preview').append('*is this italics?*');
But again, it just showed the text, not the html.
Finally, I tried hard coding stuff into the markdown section, but that just clearly didn't work. Things like
<div class="preview">
{{#markdown}}
<div class="previewInner">
</div>
{{/markdown}}
</div>
or
<div class="span6 preview">
{{#markdown}}
{{>innerPreview}}
{{/markdown}}
</div>
So basically, I've tried everything I can think of and none of it does what I want. I tried I few more things, but I think you get the idea. How am I supposed to use this?
It's easy: just put your markdown inside {{#markdown}} ... {{/markdown}} tags.