listStr = listStr.replace(rgx, function (wholeMatch, m1, m2, m3, m4, taskbtn, checked) {
checked = (checked && checked.trim() !== '');
var item = showdown.subParser('outdent')(m4, options, globals),
// Support for github tasklists
if (taskbtn && options.tasklists) {
bulletStyle = ' class="task-list-item" style="list-style-type: none;"';
item = item.replace(/^[ \t]*\[(x|X| )?]/m, function () {
var otp = '<input type="checkbox" disabled style="margin: 0px 0.35em 0.25em -1.6em; vertical-align: middle;"';
// causes trouble to the parser, since it interprets it as:
// <ul><li><li><li>a</li></li></li></ul>
// <ul><li>- - a</li></ul>
// So, to prevent it, we will put a marker (¨A)in the beginning of the line
// Kind of hackish/monkey patching, but seems more effective than overcomplicating the list parser
item = item.replace(/^([-*+]|\d\.)[ \t]+[\S\n ]*/g, function (wm2) {
// Has a double return (multi paragraph) or
if (m1 || (item.search(/\n{2,}/) > -1)) {
item = showdown.subParser('githubCodeBlocks')(item, options, globals);
item = showdown.subParser('blockGamut')(item, options, globals);
// Recursion for sub-lists:
item = showdown.subParser('lists')(item, options, globals);
item = item.replace(/\n$/, ''); // chomp(item)
item = showdown.subParser('hashHTMLBlocks')(item, options, globals);
// Colapse double linebreaks
item = item.replace(/\n\n+/g, '\n\n');
item = showdown.subParser('paragraphs')(item, options, globals);
item = showdown.subParser('spanGamut')(item, options, globals);
// now we need to remove the marker (¨A)
item = item.replace('¨A', '');
// we can finally wrap the line in list item tags
item = '<li' + bulletStyle + '>' + item + '</li>\n';
// attacklab: strip sentinel
listStr = listStr.replace(/¨0/g, '');
listStr = listStr.replace(/\s+$/, '');
function styleStartNumber (list, listType) {
// check if ol and starts by a number different than 1
var res = list.match(/^ *(\d+)\./);
if (res && res[1] !== '1') {
return ' start="' + res[1] + '"';
* Check and parse consecutive lists (better fix for issue #142)
* @param {string} listType
* @param {boolean} trimTrailing
function parseConsecutiveLists (list, listType, trimTrailing) {
// check if we caught 2 or more consecutive lists by mistake
// we use the counterRgx, meaning if listType is UL we look for OL and vice versa
var olRgx = (options.disableForced4SpacesIndentedSublists) ? /^ ?\d+\.[ \t]/gm : /^ {0,3}\d+\.[ \t]/gm,
ulRgx = (options.disableForced4SpacesIndentedSublists) ? /^ ?[*+-][ \t]/gm : /^ {0,3}[*+-][ \t]/gm,
counterRxg = (listType === 'ul') ? olRgx : ulRgx,
if (list.search(counterRxg) !== -1) {
(function parseCL (txt) {
var pos = txt.search(counterRxg),
style = styleStartNumber(list, listType);
result += '\n\n<' + listType + style + '>\n' + processListItems(txt.slice(0, pos), !!trimTrailing) + '</' + listType + '>\n';
// invert counterType and listType
listType = (listType === 'ul') ? 'ol' : 'ul';
counterRxg = (listType === 'ul') ? olRgx : ulRgx;
result += '\n\n<' + listType + style + '>\n' + processListItems(txt, !!trimTrailing) + '</' + listType + '>\n';
var style = styleStartNumber(list, listType);
result = '\n\n<' + listType + style + '>\n' + processListItems(list, !!trimTrailing) + '</' + listType + '>\n';
/** Start of list parsing **/
text = globals.converter._dispatch('lists.before', text, options, globals);
// add sentinel to hack around khtml/safari bug:
// http://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11231
if (globals.gListLevel) {
text = text.replace(/^(( {0,3}([*+-]|\d+[.])[ \t]+)[^\r]+?(¨0|\n{2,}(?=\S)(?![ \t]*(?:[*+-]|\d+[.])[ \t]+)))/gm,
function (wholeMatch, list, m2) {
var listType = (m2.search(/[*+-]/g) > -1) ? 'ul' : 'ol';
return parseConsecutiveLists(list, listType, true);
text = text.replace(/(\n\n|^\n?)(( {0,3}([*+-]|\d+[.])[ \t]+)[^\r]+?(¨0|\n{2,}(?=\S)(?![ \t]*(?:[*+-]|\d+[.])[ \t]+)))/gm,
function (wholeMatch, m1, list, m3) {
var listType = (m3.search(/[*+-]/g) > -1) ? 'ul' : 'ol';
return parseConsecutiveLists(list, listType, false);
text = text.replace(/¨0/, '');
text = globals.converter._dispatch('lists.after', text, options, globals);
* Parse metadata at the top of the document
showdown.subParser('metadata', function (text, options, globals) {
text = globals.converter._dispatch('metadata.before', text, options, globals);
function parseMetadataContents (content) {
// raw is raw so it's not changed in any way
globals.metadata.raw = content;
// escape chars forbidden in html attributes
.replace(/"/g, '"');
content = content.replace(/\n {4}/g, ' ');
content.replace(/^([\S ]+): +([\s\S]+?)$/gm, function (wm, key, value) {
globals.metadata.parsed[key] = value;
text = text.replace(/^\s*«««+(\S*?)\n([\s\S]+?)\n»»»+\n/, function (wholematch, format, content) {
parseMetadataContents(content);
text = text.replace(/^\s*---+(\S*?)\n([\s\S]+?)\n---+\n/, function (wholematch, format, content) {
globals.metadata.format = format;
parseMetadataContents(content);
text = text.replace(/¨M/g, '');
text = globals.converter._dispatch('metadata.after', text, options, globals);
* Remove one level of line-leading tabs or spaces
showdown.subParser('outdent', function (text, options, globals) {
text = globals.converter._dispatch('outdent.before', text, options, globals);
// attacklab: hack around Konqueror 3.5.4 bug:
// "----------bug".replace(/^-/g,"") == "bug"
text = text.replace(/^(\t|[ ]{1,4})/gm, '¨0'); // attacklab: g_tab_width
// attacklab: clean up hack
text = text.replace(/¨0/g, '');
text = globals.converter._dispatch('outdent.after', text, options, globals);
showdown.subParser('paragraphs', function (text, options, globals) {
text = globals.converter._dispatch('paragraphs.before', text, options, globals);
// Strip leading and trailing lines:
text = text.replace(/^\n+/g, '');
text = text.replace(/\n+$/g, '');
var grafs = text.split(/\n{2,}/g),
end = grafs.length; // Wrap <p> tags
for (var i = 0; i < end; i++) {
// if this is an HTML marker, copy it
if (str.search(/¨(K|G)(\d+)\1/g) >= 0) {
// test for presence of characters to prevent empty lines being parsed
// as paragraphs (resulting in undesired extra empty paragraphs)
} else if (str.search(/\S/) >= 0) {
str = showdown.subParser('spanGamut')(str, options, globals);
str = str.replace(/^([ \t]*)/g, '<p>');
/** Unhashify HTML blocks */
for (i = 0; i < end; i++) {
grafsOutIt = grafsOut[i],
// if this is a marker for an html block...
// use RegExp.test instead of string.search because of QML bug
while (/¨(K|G)(\d+)\1/.test(grafsOutIt)) {
blockText = globals.gHtmlBlocks[num];
// we need to check if ghBlock is a false positive
// use encoded version of all text
blockText = showdown.subParser('encodeCode')(globals.ghCodeBlocks[num].text, options, globals);
blockText = globals.ghCodeBlocks[num].codeblock;
blockText = blockText.replace(/\$/g, '$$$$'); // Escape any dollar signs
grafsOutIt = grafsOutIt.replace(/(\n\n)?¨(K|G)\d+\2(\n\n)?/, blockText);
// Check if grafsOutIt is a pre->code
if (/^<pre\b[^>]*>\s*<code\b[^>]*>/.test(grafsOutIt)) {
grafsOut[i] = grafsOutIt;
text = grafsOut.join('\n');
// Strip leading and trailing lines:
text = text.replace(/^\n+/g, '');
text = text.replace(/\n+$/g, '');
return globals.converter._dispatch('paragraphs.after', text, options, globals);
showdown.subParser('runExtension', function (ext, text, options, globals) {
text = ext.filter(text, globals.converter, options);
// TODO remove this when old extension loading mechanism is deprecated
if (!(re instanceof RegExp)) {
re = new RegExp(re, 'g');
text = text.replace(re, ext.replace);
* These are all the transformations that occur *within* block-level
* tags like paragraphs, headers, and list items.
showdown.subParser('spanGamut', function (text, options, globals) {
text = globals.converter._dispatch('spanGamut.before', text, options, globals);
text = showdown.subParser('codeSpans')(text, options, globals);
text = showdown.subParser('escapeSpecialCharsWithinTagAttributes')(text, options, globals);
text = showdown.subParser('encodeBackslashEscapes')(text, options, globals);
// Process anchor and image tags. Images must come first,
// because ![foo][f] looks like an anchor.
text = showdown.subParser('images')(text, options, globals);
text = showdown.subParser('anchors')(text, options, globals);
// Make links out of things like `<http://example.com/>`
// Must come after anchors, because you can use < and >
// delimiters in inline links like [this](<url>).
text = showdown.subParser('autoLinks')(text, options, globals);
text = showdown.subParser('simplifiedAutoLinks')(text, options, globals);
text = showdown.subParser('emoji')(text, options, globals);
text = showdown.subParser('underline')(text, options, globals);
text = showdown.subParser('italicsAndBold')(text, options, globals);
text = showdown.subParser('strikethrough')(text, options, globals);
text = showdown.subParser('ellipsis')(text, options, globals);
// we need to hash HTML tags inside spans
text = showdown.subParser('hashHTMLSpans')(text, options, globals);
// now we encode amps and angles
text = showdown.subParser('encodeAmpsAndAngles')(text, options, globals);
if (options.simpleLineBreaks) {
// only add line breaks if the text does not contain a block (special case for lists)
if (!/\n\n¨K/.test(text)) {
text = text.replace(/\n+/g, '<br />\n');
text = text.replace(/ +\n/g, '<br />\n');
text = globals.converter._dispatch('spanGamut.after', text, options, globals);
showdown.subParser('strikethrough', function (text, options, globals) {
function parseInside (txt) {
if (options.simplifiedAutoLink) {
txt = showdown.subParser('simplifiedAutoLinks')(txt, options, globals);
return '<del>' + txt + '</del>';
if (options.strikethrough) {
text = globals.converter._dispatch('strikethrough.before', text, options, globals);
text = text.replace(/(?:~){2}([\s\S]+?)(?:~){2}/g, function (wm, txt) { return parseInside(txt); });
text = globals.converter._dispatch('strikethrough.after', text, options, globals);
* Strips link definitions from text, stores the URLs and titles in
* Link defs are in the form: ^[id]: url "optional title"
showdown.subParser('stripLinkDefinitions', function (text, options, globals) {
var regex = /^ {0,3}\[(.+)]:[ \t]*\n?[ \t]*<?([^>\s]+)>?(?: =([*\d]+[A-Za-z%]{0,4})x([*\d]+[A-Za-z%]{0,4}))?[ \t]*\n?[ \t]*(?:(\n*)["|'(](.+?)["|')][ \t]*)?(?:\n+|(?=¨0))/gm,
base64Regex = /^ {0,3}\[(.+)]:[ \t]*\n?[ \t]*<?(data:.+?\/.+?;base64,[A-Za-z0-9+/=\n]+?)>?(?: =([*\d]+[A-Za-z%]{0,4})x([*\d]+[A-Za-z%]{0,4}))?[ \t]*\n?[ \t]*(?:(\n*)["|'(](.+?)["|')][ \t]*)?(?:\n\n|(?=¨0)|(?=\n\[))/gm;
// attacklab: sentinel workarounds for lack of \A and \Z, safari\khtml bug
var replaceFunc = function (wholeMatch, linkId, url, width, height, blankLines, title) {
linkId = linkId.toLowerCase();
if (url.match(/^data:.+?\/.+?;base64,/)) {
globals.gUrls[linkId] = url.replace(/\s/g, '');
globals.gUrls[linkId] = showdown.subParser('encodeAmpsAndAngles')(url, options, globals); // Link IDs are case-insensitive
// Oops, found blank lines, so it's not a title.
// Put back the parenthetical statement we stole.
return blankLines + title;
globals.gTitles[linkId] = title.replace(/"|'/g, '"');
if (options.parseImgDimensions && width && height) {
globals.gDimensions[linkId] = {
// Completely remove the definition from the text
// first we try to find base64 link references
text = text.replace(base64Regex, replaceFunc);
text = text.replace(regex, replaceFunc);
// attacklab: strip sentinel
text = text.replace(/¨0/, '');
showdown.subParser('tables', function (text, options, globals) {
var tableRgx = /^ {0,3}\|?.+\|.+\n {0,3}\|?[ \t]*:?[ \t]*(?:[-=]){2,}[ \t]*:?[ \t]*\|[ \t]*:?[ \t]*(?:[-=]){2,}[\s\S]+?(?:\n\n|¨0)/gm,
//singeColTblRgx = /^ {0,3}\|.+\|\n {0,3}\|[ \t]*:?[ \t]*(?:[-=]){2,}[ \t]*:?[ \t]*\|[ \t]*\n(?: {0,3}\|.+\|\n)+(?:\n\n|¨0)/gm;
singeColTblRgx = /^ {0,3}\|.+\|[ \t]*\n {0,3}\|[ \t]*:?[ \t]*(?:[-=]){2,}[ \t]*:?[ \t]*\|[ \t]*\n( {0,3}\|.+\|[ \t]*\n)*(?:\n|¨0)/gm;
function parseStyles (sLine) {
if (/^:[ \t]*--*$/.test(sLine)) {
return ' style="text-align:left;"';
} else if (/^--*[ \t]*:[ \t]*$/.test(sLine)) {
return ' style="text-align:right;"';
} else if (/^:[ \t]*--*[ \t]*:$/.test(sLine)) {
return ' style="text-align:center;"';
function parseHeaders (header, style) {
// support both tablesHeaderId and tableHeaderId due to error in documentation so we don't break backwards compatibility
if (options.tablesHeaderId || options.tableHeaderId) {
id = ' id="' + header.replace(/ /g, '_').toLowerCase() + '"';
header = showdown.subParser('spanGamut')(header, options, globals);
return '<th' + id + style + '>' + header + '</th>\n';
function parseCells (cell, style) {
var subText = showdown.subParser('spanGamut')(cell, options, globals);
return '<td' + style + '>' + subText + '</td>\n';
function buildTable (headers, cells) {
var tb = '<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n',
for (var i = 0; i < tblLgn; ++i) {
tb += '</tr>\n</thead>\n<tbody>\n';
for (i = 0; i < cells.length; ++i) {
for (var ii = 0; ii < tblLgn; ++ii) {
tb += '</tbody>\n</table>\n';
function parseTable (rawTable) {
var i, tableLines = rawTable.split('\n');
for (i = 0; i < tableLines.length; ++i) {
// strip wrong first and last column if wrapped tables are used