VuePress

# Markdown Extensions

# Header Anchors

Headers automatically get anchor links applied. Rendering of anchors can be configured using the markdown.anchor option.

Internal links are converted to <router-link> for SPA navigation. Also, every README.md or index.md contained in each sub-directory will automatically be converted to index.html, with corresponding URL /.

For example, given the following directory structure:

.
├─ README.md
├─ foo
│  ├─ README.md
│  ├─ one.md
│  └─ two.md
└─ bar
   ├─ README.md
   ├─ three.md
   └─ four.md

And providing you are in foo/one.md:

[Home](/) <!-- Sends the user to the root README.md -->
[foo](/foo/) <!-- Sends the user to index.html of directory foo -->
[foo heading](./#heading) <!-- Anchors user to a heading in the foo README file -->
[bar - three](../bar/three.md) <!-- You can append .md (recommended) -->
[bar - four](../bar/four.html) <!-- Or you can append .html -->

# Redirection for URLs

VuePress supports redirecting to clean links. If a link /foo is not found, VuePress will look for a existing /foo/ or /foo.html. Conversely, when one of /foo/ or /foo.html is not found, VuePress will try the other. With this feature, we can customize your website’s URLs with the official plugin vuepress-plugin-clean-urls (opens new window).

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Regardless of whether the permalink and clean-urls plugins are used, your relative path should be defined by the current file structure. In the above example, even though you set the path of /foo/one.md to /foo/one/, you should still access /foo/two.md via ./two.md.

# Page Suffix

Pages and internal links get generated with the .html suffix by default.

You can customize this by setting config.markdown.pageSuffix.

Outbound links automatically get target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer":

You can customize the attributes added to external links by setting config.markdown.externalLinks.

# Frontmatter

YAML frontmatter (opens new window) is supported out of the box:

---
title: Blogging Like a Hacker
lang: en-US
---

This data will be available to the rest of the page, along with all custom and theming components.

For more details, see Frontmatter.

# GitHub-Style Tables

Input

| Tables        | Are           | Cool  |
| ------------- |:-------------:| -----:|
| col 3 is      | right-aligned | $1600 |
| col 2 is      | centered      |   $12 |
| zebra stripes | are neat      |    $1 |

Output

Tables Are Cool
col 3 is right-aligned $1600
col 2 is centered $12
zebra stripes are neat $1

# Emoji 🎉

Input

:tada: :100:

Output

🎉 💯

A list of all emojis (opens new window) is available.

# Table of Contents

Input

[[toc]]

Output

Rendering of the TOC can be configured using the markdown.toc option.

# Custom Containers default theme

Custom containers can be defined by their types, titles, and contents.

# Default Title

Input

::: tip
This is a tip
:::

::: warning
This is a warning
:::

::: danger
This is a dangerous warning
:::

::: details
This is a details block, which does not work in IE / Edge
:::

Output

TIP

This is a tip

WARNING

This is a warning

DANGER

This is a dangerous warning

DETAILS

This is a details block, which does not work in Internet Explorer or Edge.

# Custom Title

Input

::: danger STOP
Danger zone, do not proceed
:::

::: details Click me to view the code
```js
console.log('Hello, VuePress!')
```
:::

Output

STOP

Danger zone, do not proceed

Click me to view the code 
console.log('Hello, VuePress!')

Also see:

# Syntax Highlighting in Code Blocks

VuePress uses Prism (opens new window) to highlight language syntax in Markdown code blocks, using coloured text. Prism supports a wide variety of programming languages. All you need to do is append a valid language alias to the beginning backticks for the code block:

Input

``` js
export default {
  name: 'MyComponent',
  // ...
}
```

Output

export default {
  name: 'MyComponent',
  // ...
}

Input

``` html
<ul>
  <li
    v-for="todo in todos"
    :key="todo.id"
  >
    {{ todo.text }}
  </li>
</ul>
```

Output

<ul>
  <li
    v-for="todo in todos"
    :key="todo.id"
  >
    {{ todo.text }}
  </li>
</ul>

A list of valid languages (opens new window) is available on Prism’s site.

# Line Highlighting in Code Blocks

Input

``` js{4}
export default {
  data () {
    return {
      msg: 'Highlighted!'
    }
  }
}
```

Output




 




export default {
  data () {
    return {
      msg: 'Highlighted!'
    }
  }
}

In addition to a single line, you can also specify multiple single lines, ranges, or both:

  • Line ranges: for example {5-8}, {3-10}, {10-17}
  • Multiple single lines: for example {4,7,9}
  • Line ranges and single lines: for example {4,7-13,16,23-27,40}

Input

``` js{1,4,6-7}
export default { // Highlighted
  data () {
    return {
      msg: `Highlighted!
      This line isn't highlighted,
      but this and the next 2 are.`,
      motd: 'VuePress is awesome',
      lorem: 'ipsum',
    }
  }
}
```

Output

 


 

 
 
 




export default { // Highlighted
  data () {
    return {
      msg: `Highlighted!
      This line isn't highlighted,
      but this and the next 2 are.`,
      motd: 'VuePress is awesome',
      lorem: 'ipsum',
    }
  }
}

# Line Numbers

You can enable line numbers for each code block via config:

module.exports = {
  markdown: {
    lineNumbers: true
  }
}
  • Demo:
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# Import Code Snippets beta

You can import code snippets from existing files via following syntax:

<<< @/filepath

It also supports line highlighting:

<<< @/filepath{highlightLines}

Input

<<< @/../@vuepress/markdown/__tests__/fragments/snippet.js{2}

Output


 


export default function () {
  // ..
}

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Since the import of the code snippets will be executed before webpack compilation, you can’t use the path alias in webpack. The default value of @ is process.cwd().

You can also use a VS Code region (opens new window) to only include the corresponding part of the code file. You can provide a custom region name after a # following the filepath (snippet by default):

Input

<<< @/../@vuepress/markdown/__tests__/fragments/snippet-with-region.js#snippet{1}

Code file

// #region snippet
function foo () {
  return ({
    dest: '../../vuepress',
    locales: {
      '/': {
        lang: 'en-US',
        title: 'VuePress',
        description: 'Vue-powered Static Site Generator'
      },
      '/zh/': {
        lang: 'zh-CN',
        title: 'VuePress',
        description: 'Vue 驱动的静态网站生成器'
      }
    },
    head: [
      ['link', { rel: 'icon', href: `/logo.png` }],
      ['link', { rel: 'manifest', href: '/manifest.json' }],
      ['meta', { name: 'theme-color', content: '#3eaf7c' }],
      ['meta', { name: 'apple-mobile-web-app-capable', content: 'yes' }],
      ['meta', { name: 'apple-mobile-web-app-status-bar-style', content: 'black' }],
      ['link', { rel: 'apple-touch-icon', href: `/icons/apple-touch-icon-152x152.png` }],
      ['link', { rel: 'mask-icon', href: '/icons/safari-pinned-tab.svg', color: '#3eaf7c' }],
      ['meta', { name: 'msapplication-TileImage', content: '/icons/msapplication-icon-144x144.png' }],
      ['meta', { name: 'msapplication-TileColor', content: '#000000' }]
    ]
  })
}
// #endregion snippet

export default foo

Output

 



























function foo () {
  return ({
    dest: '../../vuepress',
    locales: {
      '/': {
        lang: 'en-US',
        title: 'VuePress',
        description: 'Vue-powered Static Site Generator'
      },
      '/zh/': {
        lang: 'zh-CN',
        title: 'VuePress',
        description: 'Vue 驱动的静态网站生成器'
      }
    },
    head: [
      ['link', { rel: 'icon', href: `/logo.png` }],
      ['link', { rel: 'manifest', href: '/manifest.json' }],
      ['meta', { name: 'theme-color', content: '#3eaf7c' }],
      ['meta', { name: 'apple-mobile-web-app-capable', content: 'yes' }],
      ['meta', { name: 'apple-mobile-web-app-status-bar-style', content: 'black' }],
      ['link', { rel: 'apple-touch-icon', href: `/icons/apple-touch-icon-152x152.png` }],
      ['link', { rel: 'mask-icon', href: '/icons/safari-pinned-tab.svg', color: '#3eaf7c' }],
      ['meta', { name: 'msapplication-TileImage', content: '/icons/msapplication-icon-144x144.png' }],
      ['meta', { name: 'msapplication-TileColor', content: '#000000' }]
    ]
  })
}

# Advanced Configuration

VuePress uses markdown-it (opens new window) as the Markdown renderer. A lot of the extensions above are implemented via custom plugins. You can further customize the markdown-it instance using the markdown option in .vuepress/config.js:

module.exports = {
  markdown: {
    // options for markdown-it-anchor
    anchor: { permalink: false },
    // options for markdown-it-toc
    toc: { includeLevel: [1, 2] },
    extendMarkdown: md => {
      // use more markdown-it plugins!
      md.use(require('markdown-it-xxx'))
    }
  }
}

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