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authorWaylan Limberg <waylan.limberg@icloud.com>2015-01-01 13:25:04 -0500
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HeaderId Extension marked as Pending Deprecation.
Use the Table of Contents Extension instead. The HeaderId Extension will raise a PendingDeprecationWarning. The last few features of the HeaderID extension were mirgrated to TOC including the baselevel and separator config options. Also, the marker config option of TOC can be set to an empty string to disable searching for a marker. The `slugify`, `unique` and `stashedHTML2text` functions are now defined in the TOC extension in preperation for the HeaderId extension being removed. All coresponding tests are now run against the TOC Extension. The meta-data support of the HeaderId Extension was not migrated and no plan exists to make that migration. The `forceid` config option makes no sense in the TOC Extension and the only other config setting supported by meta-data was the `header_level`. However, as that depends on the template, it makes more sense to not be defined at the document level.
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@@ -18,6 +18,20 @@ This extension is included in the standard Markdown library.
Syntax
------
+By default, all headers will automatically have unique `id` attributes
+generated based upon the text of the header. Note this example, in which all
+three headers would have the same `id`:
+
+ #Header
+ #Header
+ #Header
+
+Results in:
+
+ <h1 id="header">Header</h1>
+ <h1 id="header_1">Header</h1>
+ <h1 id="header_2">Header</h1>
+
Place a marker in the document where you would like the Table of Contents to
appear. Then, a nested list of all the headers in the document will replace the
marker. The marker defaults to `[TOC]` so the following document:
@@ -41,6 +55,14 @@ would generate the following output:
<h1 id="header-1">Header 1</h1>
<h1 id="header-2">Header 2</h1>
+Regardless of whether a `marker` is found in the document (or disabled), the Table of
+Contents is available as an attribute (`toc`) on the Markdown class. This allows
+one to insert the Table of Contents elsewhere in their page template. For example:
+
+ >>> md = markdown.Markdown(extensions=['markdown.extensions.toc'])
+ >>> html = md.convert(text)
+ >>> page = render_some_template(context={'body': html, 'toc': md.toc})
+
Usage
-----
@@ -53,37 +75,57 @@ configuring extensions.
The following options are provided to configure the output:
* **`marker`**:
- Text to find and replace with the Table of Contents. Defaults
- to `[TOC]`.
+ Text to find and replace with the Table of Contents. Defaults to `[TOC]`.
+
+ Set to an empty string to disable searching for a marker, which may save some time,
+ especially on long documents.
- Regardless of whether a `marker` is found in the document, the Table of Contents is
- also available as an attribute (`toc`) of the Markdown class. This allows one to insert
- the Table of Contents elsewhere in their page template. For example:
+* **`title`**:
+ Title to insert in the Table of Contents' `<div>`. Defaults to `None`.
- >>> text = '''
- # Header 1
+* **`anchorlink`**:
+ Set to `True` to cause all headers to link to themselves. Default is `False`.
- ## Header 2
- '''
- >>> md = markdown.Markdown(extensions=['markdown.extensions.toc'])
- >>> html = md.convert(text)
- >>> render_some_template(context={'body': html, 'toc': md.toc})
+* **`permalink`**:
+ Set to `True` or a string to generate permanent links at the end of each header.
+ Useful with Sphinx stylesheets.
+
+ When set to `True` the paragraph symbol (&para; -- `&para;`) is used as the link
+ text. When set to a string, the provided string is used as the link text.
+
+* **`baselevel`**:
+ Base level for headers.
+
+ Default: `1`
+
+ The `baselevel` setting allows the header levels to be automatically adjusted to
+ fit within the hierarchy of your html templates. For example, suppose the
+ Markdown text for a page should not contain any headers higher than level 3
+ (`<h3>`). The following will accomplish that:
+
+ >>> text = '''
+ ... #Some Header
+ ... ## Next Level'''
+ >>> from markdown.extensions.toc import TocExtension
+ >>> html = markdown.markdown(text, extensions=[TocExtension(baselevel=3)])
+ >>> print html
+ <h3 id="some_header">Some Header</h3>
+ <h4 id="next_level">Next Level</h4>'
* **`slugify`**:
- Callable to generate anchors based on header text. Defaults to a built in
- `slugify` method. The callable must accept two arguments, the first
- contains the text content of the header and the second contains the
- separator. It should then return a string which will be used as the anchor
- text.
+ Callable to generate anchors.
-* **`title`**:
- Title to insert in the Table of Contents' `<div>`. Defaults to `None`.
+ Default: `markdown.extensions.headerid.slugify`
-* **`anchorlink`**:
- Setting to `True` will cause the headers link to themselves. Default is
- `False`.
+ In order to use a different algorithm to define the id attributes, define and
+ pass in a callable which takes the following two arguments:
-* **`permalink`**:
- Set to `True` to have this extension generate a Sphinx-style permanent links
- near the headers (for use with Sphinx stylesheets).
+ * `value`: The string to slugify.
+ * `separator`: The Word Separator.
+
+ The callable must return a string appropriate for use in HTML `id` attributes.
+
+* **`separator`**:
+ Word separator. Character which replaces whitespace in id.
+ Default: `-` \ No newline at end of file