Question

I am trying to use Pagedown to convert some markdown into HTML.

I have a div with some markdown in it

<div id="text"> 
>  This is supposed to be a blockquote

    1 < 2
</div>

and I’m converting it to HTML with this code

$(function () {
  var sanitizer = Markdown.getSanitizingConverter();
  var text = $("#text").html();
  $("#text").html(sanitizer.makeHtml(text));
});

There is no blockquote, and the left angle bracket (<) in the code block is converted to <.

You can observe my problem on jsFiddle.

What do I have to do to fix this?

Answer 1

Use .text() when extracting the text from the DOM. .html() will encode some symbols as entities.

http://jsfiddle.net/fGNsM/3/