Restrict only certain formatting only with showdown.js Markdown expression library

Question

I am using showdown.js that can be downloaded from https://github.com/showdownjs/showdown/

and the question is I am trying to allow only certain formatting? E.g. only bold formattings are allowed, the rest is not converted and is formatting discarded for example

If I am writing the text which is a Markdown Expression below

"Text attributes _italic_, *italic*, __bold__, **bold**, `monospace`."

the output of the above would be below

<p>Text attributes <em>italic</em>, <em>italic</em>, <strong>bold</strong>, <strong>bold</strong>, <code>monospace</code>.

after conversion. Now what I want is when converting, it should convert the bold expression only rest of the expressions it should discard.

I am using the below code to convert the markdown expression into a normal text below

var converter = new showdown.Converter(),
//Converting the response received in to html format 
html = converter.makeHtml("Text attributes _italic_, *italic*, __bold__, **bold**, `monospace`.");

Thank you!

By discard do you mean remove the markdown and replace it for text only? — Elwin Arens, Jun 08 '16 at 09:24
Did you want the paragraph tags (`
`) to be included or excluded? You only mention inline syntax/tags, and make no mention of block level tags. The correct answer depends on what you want. — Waylan, Jun 08 '16 at 12:51
I just wanted to restrict only certain formatting are allowed.Yes Excluding
tag as well. — Pradeep Gaba, Jun 08 '16 at 13:08

Elwin Arens · Accepted Answer · 2016-06-08T10:52:42.553

Out-of-the-box this is not possible with showdown.js. This would require creating a custom build of showdown.js from source, removing the subParsers that you do not want.

There are other mechanisms in place that could be used to have showdown only convert bold markdown, like listening to dispatched events pre and post parsing, but since you only want bold converted this is not an approach i would take, as it would require writing a lot of code for something that could take only a few lines of code.

What you could do instead is use the part of showndown.js that parses/converts the bold parts, like so:

function markdown_bold(text) {
    html = text;
    //underscores
    html = html.replace(/(^|\s|>|\b)__(?=\S)([^]+?)__(?=\b|<|\s|$)/gm, '$1<strong>$2</strong>');
    //asterisks
    html = html.replace(/(\*\*)(?=\S)([^\r]*?\S[*]*)\1/g, '<strong>$2</strong>');
    return html;
}

Source.

Restrict only certain formatting only with showdown.js Markdown expression library

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