Allowing arbitrary container names (i.e., not specified in advance)?

[rauschma]

If I write Markdown, I’d love to be able to use any CSS class I like – without the parser having to know about it in advance.

If someone needs more control, they can use method .validate().

Use cases:

• Creating colored boxes in text.
• Using Markdown for slides (where fenced divs can set up various layouts).

[marcselman]

Yeah, that seems pretty basic. Markdig (for C#) supports that and you can even leave out the name so it will just generate a div without a class name. https://github.com/xoofx/markdig/blob/master/src/Markdig.Tests/Specs/CustomContainerSpecs.md

[rauschma]

Update: I tried rewriting the code to allow arbitrary names and, as far as I can tell, it doesn’t support nesting of containers with different names (due to how it detects closing delimiters).

That prevents many use cases for arbitrarily named containers.

[puzrin]

Closing, since should be doable on the user side via customizations.

[uncenter]

This is what I've done to enable arbitrary names: https://gist.github.com/uncenter/5db09920e8fe879c38e96e59b2367895