The Attribute Lists extension adds a syntax to define attributes on the various HTML elements in markdown’s output.
This extension is included in the standard Markdown library.
The basic syntax was inspired by Maruku‘s Attribute Lists feature.
An example attribute list might look like this:
{: #someid .someclass somekey='some value' }
A word which starts with a hash (#) will set the id of an element.
A word which starts with a dot (.) will be added to the list of classes
assigned to an element.
A key/value pair (somekey='some value') will assign that pair to the element.
Be aware that while the dot syntax will add to a class, using key/value pairs will always override the previously defined attribute. Consider the following:
{: #id1 .class1 id=id2 class="class2 class3" .class4 }
The above example would result in the following attributes being defined:
id="id2" class="class2 class3 class4"
To define attributes for a block level element, the attribute list should be defined on the last line of the block by itself.
This is a paragraph.
{: #an_id .a_class }
The above results in the following output:
<p id="an_id" class="a_class">This is a paragraph.</p>
The one exception is headers, as they are only ever allowed on one line.
A setext style header {: #setext}
=================================
### A hash style header ### {: #hash }
The above results in the following output:
<h1 id="setext">A setext style header</h1>
<h3 id="hash">A hash style header</h3>
To define attributes on inline elements, the attribute list should be defined immediately after the inline element with no whitespace.
[link](http://example.com){: class="foo bar" title="Some title!" }
The above results in the following output:
<p><a href="http://example.com" class="foo bar" title="Some title!">link</a></p>
See Extensions for general extension usage, specify attr_list
as the name of the extension.
This extension does not accept any special configuration options.