🍜 Markdown to spaghettified HTML.
Spaghettified HTML? Yep - that's HTML with all the styles of each element applied inline.
But why? So you can paste it into emails and other text inputs that accept HTML, where support for external CSS is limited or non-existent.
This project is part of #CreateWeekly, my attempt to create something new publicly every week in 2020.
https://noodle-editor.netlify.com/
Noodle allows you to:
- Write Markdown with support for code syntax highlighting for common languages
- Compile your Markdown to HTML with inline styles, and copy the result to clipboard
- Noodle compiles your Markdown to HTML using markdown-it. As a part of this compilation, code blocks are highlighted with highlight.js.
- The resulting HTML is inserted into an isolated shadow DOM for rendering with the Markdown stylesheet (adapted from Github's default Markdown styles).
- The rendered HTML is cloned and spaghettified, by walking the DOM tree and looking up matching CSS rules for each element from the Markdown stylesheet. Matching rules are then applied to the element as inline styles.
- Finally the spaghettified DOM tree is serialized to HTML.
Noodle the editor is a simple online editor that produces HTML output you can copy and paste where you need it. It automatically saves your input locally to prevent data loss if you accidentally close the page. This README was written in the Noodle editor 🙈.
Try it at https://noodle-editor.netlify.com/.
The core editor and HTML preview are available as a Vue component library you can use in another app.
See lib/ for the library documentation.
See contribution guide.