Build a Markdown to HTML Converter - Build a Markdown to HTML Converter

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Tell us what’s happening:

If totally lost on this, the tests say I should have a function named convertMarkdown. the function named is definitely there i’m thinking syntax error somewhere but i can’t see it

Your code so far

<!-- file: index.html -->
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">

<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    <title>Markdown to HTML Converter</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="styles.css">
</head>

<body>
    <h1>Markdown to HTML Converter</h1>
    <div id="container">
        <div class="container">
            <h2>Markdown Input:</h2>
            <textarea id="markdown-input" placeholder="Enter your markdown here..."></textarea>
        </div>
        <div class="container">
            <h2>Raw HTML Output:</h2>
            <div id="html-output"></div>
        </div>
        <div class="container">
            <h2>HTML Preview:</h2>
            <div id="preview"></div>
        </div>
    </div>
</body>

</html>

/* file: styles.css */
* {
     box-sizing: border-box;
}
 body {
     font-family: Arial, sans-serif;
     padding: 20px;
}
 #markdown-input {
     width: 100%;
     height: 100px;
}
 #html-output, #preview {
     height: 100px;
     display: inline-block;
     width: 100%;
     border: 1px solid #ccc;
     padding: 10px;
     margin: auto;
     white-space: pre-wrap;
     background-color: #f9f9f9;
}
 @media (min-width: 600px) {
     #markdown-input, #html-output, #preview {
         height: 200px;
         margin: 0;
    }
     #container {
         display: flex;
         justify-content: space-evenly;
         gap: 10px;
    }
}

/* file: script.js */
const markdownInput = document.getElementById("markdown-input");
const htmlOutput = document.getElementById("html-output");
const preview = document.getElementById("preview");

function convertMarkdown()  {
  let markdown = markdownInput.value;
      
  markdown = markdown.replace(/^#{3}\s+(.+)$/gm, '<h3>$1</h3>');
  markdown = markdown.replace(/^#{2}\s+(.+)$/gm, '<h2>$1</h2>');
  markdown = markdown.replace(/^#{1}\s+(.+)$/gm, '<h1>$1</h1>');
  
  markdown = markdown.replace(/^>\s+(.+)$/gm, '<blockquote>$1</blockquote>');
  
  markdown = markdown.replace(/!\[([^\]]+)\]\(([^)]+)\)/g, '<img alt="$1" src="$2">');
  
  markdown = markdown.replace(/\[([^\]]+)\]\(([^)]+)\)/g, '<a href="$2">$1</a>');
  
  markdown = markdown.replace(/(\*\*|__)(.*?)\1/g, '<strong>$2</strong>');
  
  markdown = markdown.replace(/(\*|_)(.*?)\1/g, '<em>$2</em>');

  return markdown.replace(/\n/g, '');
};

markdownInput.addEventListener("input", () => {
  const htmlResult = convertMarkdown();
  
  
  htmlOutput.textContent = htmlResult;
  
  
  preview.innerHTML = htmlResult;
});

Your browser information:

User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/143.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Challenge Information:

Build a Markdown to HTML Converter - Build a Markdown to HTML Converter

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It looks like your script.js is not connected to your html.

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3

Ah lol … I thought I was going mad :rofl:

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yep that did it thanks :smiley:

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