I’m trying to style CodeMirror into a rich text editor in Markdown mode. I’d like to style code blocks using a monospace font but the rest of the text should be rendered using a sans-serif font. This causes problems rendering whitespace characters since they aren’t wrapped in spans: there seems to be no CSS selector I can use to style only code blocks using a specific font.
Any input on this @marijn? I tried adding CSS classes to the HTML output after CodeMirror renders, but I’m guessing that the character positions are cached, because the cursor would render in a completely different position than what it looked like I was editing. I would happily hack the source to get this working, but can’t quite figure out which functions I should be calling after adding my CSS classes to update the calculated character positions.
You mean the indentation whitespace, right?
I’m seing a <span class=cm-comment> from first non-blank char to end of line (including internal and trailing spaces).
I added a class to the leading whitespace by trivial modification of trailingspace addon:
But that applies to ALL leading whitespace, not only on code block lines.
I wanted that, to help indenting lists: https://www.mathdown.net/?doc=help
But if you want it for blocks only, I don’t see anything better than renderLine looking for lines that contain only one cm-comment span…
How about modifying markdown mode itself (and gfm I think) to return a style like line-codeblock comment in code blocks? The line-... style would then be lifted by CM to the whole line, making styling easy.
Bonus: it should also allow styling code block background. (Ideally I’d like indented blocks to get grey background not on whole width but from the 4-space boundary to infinity; not sure it’s possible with CM.)
I’ll try to send a PR but not sure when I’ll get around to it.
Thanks @cben! I did manage to implement this feature by parsing the source myself (``` at the start of line), but obviously would prefer a built-in solution. I initially did look into modifying gfm mode but couldn’t quite figure out how everything works.
A renderLine event gets passed the CodeMirror and line objects as well as the element. How can you tell that the current line is inside of a code block given that information?
Could you share your code? I tried a few methods and observed values through debugging but it’s clear that I’m not familiar with CodeMirror. It would help a lot.