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Asked: 2026-06-14T13:54:18+00:00

I have the following Javascript/jQuery on my page: <script> $(#mymarkdown).load(./LPInfo.md); var md = markdown.toHTML($(#mymarkdown).html());

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I have the following Javascript/jQuery on my page:

<script>
 $("#mymarkdown").load("./LPInfo.md");
 var md = markdown.toHTML($("#mymarkdown").html());
 $("#mymarkdown").html(md);
</script>

That page is here:

http://www.nickhodges.com/LeanTed/bootstrap/about.html

The page uses bootstrap. I’ve looked and see no errors in the console when rendering the code.

As you can see, it is not doing what I want, which is using markdown.js to render the contents of a file into HTML.

Here’s the weird part, and the root of my question:

If I open the page as a local file, Chrome does nothing. IE9 will open and properly render the page, but only after I give permission to run the script.

Both browsers fail to render the page correctly using the above link. Firefox has the same result.

I confess to being pretty much of a n00b on all this, but I’m at a loss to explain the inconsistent behavior. I understand that the code is accessing a local file, but that shouldn’t be a problem when accessed via the web server, right?

Anyway, and help will be appreciated.

UPDATE:
Here’s the code for the page:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>LeanTed Markdown Editor</title>
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    <meta name="description" content="">
    <meta name="author" content="">

    <!-- Le styles -->
    <link href="css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <style>
      body {
        padding-top: 60px; /* 60px to make the container go all the way to the bottom of the topbar */
      }
    </style>
    <link href="css/bootstrap-responsive.css" rel="stylesheet">

    <!-- Le HTML5 shim, for IE6-8 support of HTML5 elements -->
    <!--[if lt IE 9]>
      <script src="http://html5shim.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/html5.js"></script>
    <![endif]-->

    <!-- Le fav and touch icons -->
    <link rel="shortcut icon" href="../assets/ico/favicon.ico">
    <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" sizes="144x144" href="../assets/ico/apple-touch-icon-144-precomposed.png">
    <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" sizes="114x114" href="../assets/ico/apple-touch-icon-114-precomposed.png">
    <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" sizes="72x72" href="../assets/ico/apple-touch-icon-72-precomposed.png">
    <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" href="../assets/ico/apple-touch-icon-57-precomposed.png">
  </head>

  <body>

    <div class="navbar navbar-inverse navbar-fixed-top">
      <div class="navbar-inner">
        <div class="container">
          <a class="btn btn-navbar" data-toggle="collapse" data-target=".nav-collapse">
            <span class="icon-bar"></span>
            <span class="icon-bar"></span>
            <span class="icon-bar"></span>
          </a>
          <a class="brand" href="#">LeanTed Markdown Editor</a>
          <div class="nav-collapse collapse">
            <ul class="nav">
              <li><a href="hero.html">Home</a></li>
              <li class="active"><a href="#">About</a></li>
              <li><a href="http://www.nickhodges.com/contact.aspx">Contact</a></li>
            </ul>
          </div><!--/.nav-collapse -->
        </div>
      </div>
    </div>

    <div class="container">
      <div id="mymarkdown"></div>
    </div> <!-- /container -->

    <!-- Le javascript
    ================================================== -->
    <!-- Placed at the end of the document so the pages load faster -->
    <script type="text/javascript" src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
    <script src="../assets/js/bootstrap-transition.js"></script>
    <script src="../assets/js/bootstrap-alert.js"></script>
    <script src="../assets/js/bootstrap-modal.js"></script>
    <script src="../assets/js/bootstrap-dropdown.js"></script>
    <script src="../assets/js/bootstrap-scrollspy.js"></script>
    <script src="../assets/js/bootstrap-tab.js"></script>
    <script src="../assets/js/bootstrap-tooltip.js"></script>
    <script src="../assets/js/bootstrap-popover.js"></script>
    <script src="../assets/js/bootstrap-button.js"></script>
    <script src="../assets/js/bootstrap-collapse.js"></script>
    <script src="../assets/js/bootstrap-carousel.js"></script>
    <script src="../assets/js/bootstrap-typeahead.js"></script>

    <script src="markdown.js"></script>


    <script>
     $("#mymarkdown").load("./LPInfo.md");
     var md = markdown.toHTML($("#mymarkdown").html());
     $("#mymarkdown").html(md);
    </script>

  </body>
</html>
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  1. Editorial Team

    The problem is that you’re trying to run markdown.toHTML on the contents of #mymarkdown before it has fully loaded into the DOM (load being asynchronous). Use the “complete” callback of load and it works:

    $("#mymarkdown").load("./LPInfo.md", function() {
   var md = markdown.toHTML($("#mymarkdown").html());
   $("#mymarkdown").html(md);
});

    (The reason it works locally is probably because lpinfo.md is loaded near-instantaneously, either because 1. an Ajax call to the localhost is extremely fast, or 2. your browser already has the file from localhost cached.)

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