Avoid escaping in <p>

[LukeTOBrien]

Hello there,

My question is simuliar to #340
But I don't wish to escape the whole element, only parts of it.

I am building a graphical MD editor, users can select HTML elements with the contentEditable attribute` in the designer and type, what when a is then processed.
The issue is that when a user types a list inside a paragraph, the list is escaped:
The user types:

* abc
* 123

The returned Markdown is:

\* abc
\* 123

Is there any way to change this behaviour?

Thanks

[martincizek]

My question is simuliar to #340

Not really similar. Although #340 mentions avoiding escaping, the solution is actually avoiding standard Turndown rules completely. Not only text escaping, but also HTML formatting inside a pre block should just be dropped, as it has no representation in MD and most likely it is just some generated syntax highlighting.

I am building a graphical MD editor

If you are building a source-level editor with inline formatting highlighting like https://stackedit.io/, then Turndown is not really a match. I guess you are building a mixed wysiwyg + source editor, which combines HTML formatting with user-entered Markdown syntax, correct?

If that is the case, you can upvote PR #339, which would give you the ability to contextually change escaping behaviour.

[LukeTOBrien]

Hi, thanks for taking a look.

Stackedit goes one way, Markdown to HTML, I want to allow for both ways, the user can edit the HTML element.
I have code that adds contentEditable to all HTML elements post-render.
I have recently started using Turndown and it does work nicely and do what I want.

So I guess what I mean is that I want to allow for Markdown to be entered inside the node text.
I will close your issue awaiting for your PR, I think I can also do string replacement for simple things like lists.