PostCSS Markdown Syntax

PostCSS Syntax for parsing Markdown

Getting Started

First thing's first, install the module:

npm install postcss-syntax postcss-markdown --save-dev

If you want support SCSS/SASS/LESS/SugarSS syntax, you need to install the corresponding module.

• SCSS: postcss-scss
• SASS: postcss-sass
• LESS: postcss-less
• SugarSS: sugarss

Use Cases

var syntax = require("postcss-syntax")({
  // Enable support for HTML (default: true) See: https://github.com/gucong3000/postcss-html
  htmlInMd: true,
  // syntax for parse scss (non-required options)
  scss: require("postcss-scss"),
  // syntax for parse less (non-required options)
  less: require("postcss-less"),
  // syntax for parse css blocks (non-required options)
  css: require("postcss-safe-parser")
});
var autoprefixer = require("autoprefixer");
postcss([autoprefixer])
  .process(source, { syntax: syntax })
  .then(function(result) {
    // An alias for the result.css property. Use it with syntaxes that generate non-CSS output.
    result.content;
  });

input:

output:

If you want support SCSS/SASS/LESS/SugarSS syntax, you need to install these module:

• SCSS: postcss-scss
• SASS: postcss-sass
• LESS: postcss-less
• SugarSS: sugarss

Advanced Use Cases

See: postcss-syntax

Style Transformations

The main use case of this plugin is apply PostCSS transformations to CSS (and CSS-like) code blocks in markdown file.