Markdown Fieldtype

Overview

Markdown has been around since 2004. One fateful day in December, John Gruber published his spec and first version of the Markdown parser. Since that day (it was a Friday), Markdown has grown wildly in popularity, and today has become the de facto standard format for writing portable content.

Back in 2004 there was just one flavor: John's. Today's landscape has many variations, parsers, extensions, and standards groups. The most widely accepted feature set is Github-Flavored Markdown, or GFM for short.

Statamic uses the League\CommonMark library to support GFM, to enable tables, special attributes like classes and ids on block-level elements, and fenced code blocks.

Data Structure

The data will be saved exactly as written – a Markdown string.

## Overview
 
This is the Markdown fieldtype. It's for writing [Markdown](https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/), an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format that magically transforms into HTML.

Templating

The Markdown content will be automatically transformed into HTML through augmentation. You need only use the variable and the rest is done for you.

{{ content }}

{!! $content !!}

<h2>Overview</h2>
<p>This is the Markdown fieldtype. It's for writing <a href="https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/">Markdown</a>, an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format that magically transforms into HTML.</p>

Dark Mode

The Markdown fieldtype also has a dark mode when in fullscreen for those of you who like that sort of thing.

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