Markdown

Markdown to HTML Process

For a number of years I have been using Dillinger.io to compile my Markdown files into HTML. The process was relatively easy and I could quickly take the body content out of the exported web page and insert it into a Bootstrap HTML template to produce a styled web page. The HTML that was created wasn’t valid HTML but I wasn’t concerned with that. Recently I found that Dillinger started changing the formatting of the HTML content it was producing.

Displaying Markdown Files

I am currently creating all of my documentation in Markdown format and then converting to HTML with dillinger.io for viewing. I had a Visual Studio extension that could do this but every time I saved a page edit it would shift focus from Visual Studio to Chrome and that was very disconcerting. I disabled that extension. I always seem to have a lot of typos and would like a method of viewing my Markdown files before converting them to HTML.