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List:       markdown-discuss
Subject:    Re: No Markdown in <div>s or <table>s ?
From:       Dan Dascalescu <ddascalescu () gmail ! com>
Date:       2009-04-24 5:49:22
Message-ID: 3561cc6d0904232249x64ecc1cdo4fc47e651300d355 () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 22:23, david parsons <orc@pell.chi.il.us> wrote:
> In article <534004cc0904231401m3ae87c98r3ed863192b678d71@mail.gmail.com>,
> Sherwood Botsford   <markdown-discuss@six.pairlist.net> wrote:
>
>>I'm sure there are situations where you DONT want markdown to process
>>what is inside block tags
>
>    In my case, the situations are pretty near all of them.    I've tossed
>    some extensions into discount so I can wedge <div> and <span> into
>    the text without actually having to write them, so the only reason I
>    use vanilla html is when I'm adding snippets of html from external
>    sources

That's a very good point. I wrote up a summary of the whole discussion at
http://github.com/marcusramberg/mojomojo/issues#issue/16

IMO the best solution, as John Gruber suggested, is to implement
specific support for Markdown interpretation in HTML block-level
elements:

<div markdown="1">

Dan

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