showdown/src/subParsers/hashCodeTags.js

A Markdown to HTML converter written in Javascript

/**
 * Hash and escape <code> elements that should not be parsed as markdown
 */
showdown.subParser('hashCodeTags', function (text, options, globals) {
  'use strict';
  text = globals.converter._dispatch('hashCodeTags.before', text, options, globals);

  var repFunc = function (wholeMatch, match, left, right) {
    var codeblock = left + showdown.subParser('encodeCode')(match, options, globals) + right;
    return '¨C' + (globals.gHtmlSpans.push(codeblock) - 1) + 'C';
  };

  // Hash naked <code>
  text = showdown.helper.replaceRecursiveRegExp(text, repFunc, '<code\\b[^>]*>', '</code>', 'gim');

  text = globals.converter._dispatch('hashCodeTags.after', text, options, globals);
  return text;
});