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to [HTML](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML) [text processor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compiler).
## Features
- *Directly write your documents in Markdown*, and let the browser do the boring *compilation* steps,
- no need for CSS, theming or painless styling : *StrapDown.js* is already *friggin' beautiful*, and *responsive*,
- *quick* and *secure*, thanks to *bitbucket* and its SSL (even if the certificate is not valid for [lbesson.bitbucket.org](https://lbesson.bitbucket.org), it is still secure),
- an almost perfect support for text-only browsers : pure Markdown is simpler to read than complicated HTML full of javascript,
- no external dependencies other than itself,
- no spying, no logging, no leaking of your pages (only [Google Analytics](http://besson.qc.to/beacon.html) with the default template, and [rum.js from bitbucket hosting server](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/BITBUCKET/Publishing+a+Website+on+Bitbucket#PublishingaWebsiteonBitbucket-TechnicalFeaturesandLimitationsofthisFeature)).
- And, the last but not the least, *experimental* embedding of the even awesomer [SquirtFR](https://lbesson.bitbucket.org/squirt) bookmarklet to read *as quickly as Lucky Luke*.
## Defaults ?
- It might get slow for *long* pages (3000 lines seem to be too much),
- a reduced support for browsers *without javascript* or *with javascript disabled* (the pages are still readable, but really ugly),
- hosted on bitbucket, which is wonderful but might not be always available (~ 3 hours of maintenance every 6 months).
Concretly, bitbucket is always *up*, *secured* and *quick* (ooh, and bitbucket is also awesome, completely free, and awesome too). Yeah, *bitbucket is so awesome* that I had to say it twice, you read it correctly.
But if you prefer, feel free to download [StrapDown.js.zip](https://bitbucket.org/lbesson/lbesson.bitbucket.org/downloads/StrapDown.js.zip) and embed it on your own server.
> ## A quick "thank you" to the initial project
> My version of StrapDown.js is a fork of [strapdownjs.com](http://strapdownjs.com), a cool project that kinda seems dead by now.
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## How to start using StrapDown.js ?
**Just follow this short tutorial** :
### [Default template to use](example0.html) *(you can click this to see it)*
Create an empty file, save it to *mytext.html*
(yes, *.html* as HTML, but you will write in Markdown in no time),
and then copy and paste the following 5 lines :
```markdown
<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title>A StrapDown.js template</title></head><body><textarea theme="cyborg">
### Write here in Markdown rather than in HTML
> This document is empty right now. Fill it out with awesome content !
</textarea><script type="text/javascript" src="//lbesson.bitbucket.org/md/strapdown.js?src=example0"></script></body></html>
```
### [A first example](example1.html) *(you can click this to see it)*
There we use some markup.
```markdown
<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><meta charset="utf-8"/><title>« My first test with StrapDown.js »</title></head><body><textarea theme="cyborg">
# This is a Markdown document
You can now write your web page in Markdown.
You opened a `textarea` tag, but a `xmp` tag works as well.
And, yes, it is **as simple** as **one** HTML line at the beginning and **one** HTML line at the end of this document.
</textarea><script type="text/javascript" src="//lbesson.bitbucket.org/md/strapdown.js?src=example1"></script></body></html>
```
### [A second example](example2.html) *(you can click this to see it)*
There we embed two images, and describe a little more how cool is StrapDown.js !
We also use another theme (*united*).
```markdown
<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title>Awesome second example with StrapDown.js</title></head><body><textarea theme="united">
# This is a Markdown document
You can now write your web page in Markdown.
You opened a `textarea` tag, but a `xmp` tag works as well.
And, yes, it is **as simple** as **one** HTML line at the beginning and **one** HTML line at the end of this document.
## What to say more
Feel free to use it, redistribute it etc, *under the condition of the GPLv3 License*.
## Only for textual, simple documents
StrapDown.js is *awesome* to quickly build nice-looking web page,
but it might not be efficient for anything more complicated, as it is really not designed for it.
## Add a picture ?
With Markdown syntax, it's easy : .
### An other one ?
Alright, here comes the mighty Cthulhu 
### A last one, because it's dangerous to go alone :
## Add anything you want, it *might* work
For instance, you can add use Google Analytics to monitor the page's activity,
with including a piece of Javascript code, before *or* after closing the *textarea* tag.
<script type="text/javascript">
(function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){
(i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),
m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)
})(window,document,'script','//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga');
ga('create','UA-38514290-14','lbesson.bitbucket.org'); ga('send','pageview');
</script>
<noscript>
The previous parapraph was supposed to include Google Analytics web monitoring tool,
but hey, you are browsing without JavaScript enabled, what can I do for it ? <br/>
Maybe you are using a text-only browser (w3m, links, elinks ? I love elinks !),
or a 19th-century IE, or maybe you disabled JavaScript globally (which is kinda stupid) or site-by-site (with NoScript, as I do, which is brilliant, and safer).
</noscript>
## That's it
This was a brief overview, to show the basic use of [StrapDown.js](index.html).
</textarea><script type="text/javascript" src="//lbesson.bitbucket.org/md/strapdown.js?src=example2"></script></body></html>
```
### Themes
Only two themes from [strapdownjs.com]() are pretty enough to be included :
- [cyborg](http://bootswatch.com/cyborg) for a demo,
- [united](http://bootswatch.com/united) for a demo.
More will soon be availables !
### Printing to a nice looking PDF
Rather than use the built-in "Print to a PDF" function
of your browser, you should consider using [StrapDown2PDF](strapdown2pdf.html).
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# Cloning
As of now, StrapDown.js does **not** have it own git repository.
And I don't want to, because it is cleaner to let it live on http://lbesson.bitbucket.org/md.
But, there, you can download this not up-to-date version of the *md* subdir of my [lbesson.bitbucket.org](https://bitbucket.org/lbesson/lbesson.bitbucket.org/src/master/md/) repository :
[StrapDown.js.zip](https://bitbucket.org/lbesson/lbesson.bitbucket.org/downloads/StrapDown.js.zip)
(and [its PGP signature](https://bitbucket.org/lbesson/lbesson.bitbucket.org/downloads/StrapDown.js.zip.asc).)
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# Future features
- Maybe host it on a *CDN*,
- More themes,
- Hack something to force using local cached version of the script and stylesheets rather than download them every time ?
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# About
### Hacked by [Lilian Besson](https://bitbucket.org/lbesson)
### Languages
- JavaScript;
- CSS 3.
### License
This project is released under the **GPLv3 license**, for more details,
take a look at the [LICENSE](http://besson.qc.to/LICENSE.html) file in the source.
*Basically, that allow you to use all or part of the project for you own business.*
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