The minimal amount of CSS to replicate the GitHub Markdown style
First a rendered Markdown with all possible syntax is fetched from GitHub. Then the GitHub.com CSS is fetched and both are run through UnCSS, which extracts only the used styles, and then through a custom cleanup.
Download manually or with a package-manager.
$ npm install --save github-markdown-css
$ bower install --save github-markdown-css
$ component install sindresorhus/github-markdown-css
Import the github-markdown.css
file and add a markdown-body
class to the container of your rendered Markdown and set a width for it. GitHub uses 790px
width and 30px
padding.
<link rel="stylesheet" href="github-markdown.css">
<style>
.markdown-body {
min-width: 200px;
max-width: 790px;
margin: 0 auto;
padding: 30px;
}
</style>
<article class="markdown-body">
<h1>Unicorns</h1>
<p>All the things</p>
</article>
I will try to keep it up to date, but you're free to fetch the CSS yourself either through the API or CLI.
var githubMarkdownCss = require('github-markdown-css');
githubMarkdownCss(function (err, css) {
if (err) {
throw err;
}
console.log(css);
//=> .markdown-body { ...
});
$ npm install --global github-markdown-css
$ github-markdown-css --help
Usage
$ github-markdown-css > <filename>
MIT © Sindre Sorhus