Markdown Processing

Markdown Processing

Overview

Posts support Markdown formatting with syntax highlighting, tables, and code blocks. Processed with python-markdown and sanitized with bleach.

Supported Markdown

• Headers (H1-H6)
• Bold, italic, code
• Code blocks with syntax highlighting
• Tables
• Lists (ordered, unordered)
• Blockquotes
• Links
• Horizontal rules

Implementation

markdown.markdown(text, extensions=['fenced_code', 'codehilite', 'tables', 'nl2br'])
bleach.clean(html, tags=allowed_tags)

Security

HTML sanitization prevents XSS attacks by removing dangerous tags and attributes.