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Markdown

CloudCannon officially supports two Markdown processors for Jekyll. Jekyll uses these to convert your Markdown for your live site, and CloudCannon uses it to convert your Markdown for your editors.

Kramdown

Kramdown is the default Markdown processor for Jekyll.

To use Kramdown for your build and editors:

1. Remove or set the markdown field to kramdown in _config.yml
2. Set your options in the kramdown field in _config.yml (optional)

_config.yml

kramdown:
  input: GFM
  auto_ids: true

CommonMark

CommonMark is new Markdown specification which aims to become standard and unambiguous.

To use CommonMark for your build and editors:

1. Add the jekyll-commonmark gem to your Gemfile
2. Set the markdown field to CommonMark in _config.yml
3. Set your options in the commonmark field in _config.yml

Gemfile

source 'https://rubygems.org'

gem 'jekyll', '3.8.5'

group :jekyll_plugins do
  gem 'jekyll-commonmark', '1.3.1'
end

_config.yml

markdown: CommonMark

commonmark:
  options: ["SMART", "UNSAFE"]
  extensions: ["strikethrough", "table"]

The UNSAFE options is required for HTML content inside your Markdown files to render correctly.

CommonMark does not support a syntax to define attributes on elements, in order to preserve attributes, that content saves as HTML within your Markdown files.