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GitHub Markdown Preview

GitHub Markdown Preview

Matt Bierner

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Changes VS Code's built-in markdown preview to match GitHub
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Changes VS Code's built-in markdown preview to match GitHub markdown rendering in style and content

Features

This is an extension pack of the following VS Code markdown preview extensions. These extensions can be installed individually:

  • Markdown Preview GitHub Styling — CSS that makes the preview match GitHub's markdown style.

  • Markdown Emoji — Adds :emoji: support to the markdown preview.

  • Markdown Checkboxes — Adds - [ ] tasklist support to the markdown preview.

  • Markdown yaml Preamble — Adds support for rendering the yaml frontmatter as a table. Be sure to set "markdown.previewFrontMatter": "show".

  • Markdown Footnotes - Adds [^1] footnote syntax support to VS Code's built-in Markdown preview.

  • Markdown Mermaid - Adds Mermaid diagram and flowchart support to VS Code's builtin markdown preview.

Usage

Please see the VSCode Markdown Preview documentation for instructions on how to use this extension.

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