Show HN: CSS to render Markdown as unrendered Markdown

Re:Show HN: CSS to render Markdown as unrendered Markdown by captn3m0 on Friday April 10, 2015 @11:48AM (#9355091)

Any usecases for this?

I was thinking that this could be useful for giving people markdown to copy directly, but css:before and after doesn't get copied.

I'm so gonna use this _somewhere_, just not sure where.

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Re:Show HN: CSS to render Markdown as unrendered Markdown by ImJasonH on Friday April 10, 2015 @11:51AM (#9355106)

I didn't have any real use cases in mind when I made it, I just wanted to see if it was possible.

In theory you could use it to demonstrate the underlying Markdown for some HTML, but unfortunately I haven't been able to figure out how to make the CSS ::before and ::after content user-selectable[0], so you wouldn't be able to copy it back out to make a simple HTML-to-Markdown converter.

[0] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19914349/how-can-i-make-g...

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Re:Show HN: CSS to render Markdown as unrendered Markdown by leeoniya on Friday April 10, 2015 @12:03PM (#9355191)

the table stuff doesnt work too well either, understandably. if you actually want to do conversion though, check out reMarked.js [1], disclaimer: mine. it's not too heavy, either.

[1] https://github.com/leeoniya/reMarked.js

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Re:Show HN: CSS to render Markdown as unrendered Markdown by anoother on Friday April 10, 2015 @03:15PM (#9356521)

Yes.

I often find myself using http://markdown-here.com/ to compose an email, and then wanting to get back at the source to send another, slightly modified email, or to insert into a README.md.

This will make my life a lot easier. Just need to package it up into a nice browser toolbar button.

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Re:Show HN: CSS to render Markdown as unrendered Markdown by masukomi on Sunday April 12, 2015 @07:45AM (#9363021)

no, because you can't copy paste the tags. they're just visual sugar that isn't actionable.

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Re:Show HN: CSS to render Markdown as unrendered Markdown by makenosound on Friday April 10, 2015 @07:54PM (#9357741)

Not super practical, but I use [something similar on my site](http://makenosound.com/2012/10/07/going-paperless.html) as a stylistic thing.

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Re:Show HN: CSS to render Markdown as unrendered Markdown by stronglikedan on Friday April 10, 2015 @03:37PM (#9356639)

Complex tables? You could use a WYSIWYG HTML editor to quickly create them, and then use this to convert to MD. That's the only thing I can think of.

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