How to render markdown without preview?

[will-emmerson]

I just want to render the markdown to html in a template, without the preview.

[timmyomahony]

I presume you mean you don't want to see the preview when writing your markdown in the django admin or elsewhere? You could simply hide the preview via css:

.wmd-preview{
    display: none;
}

but there is no built in way to ommit the preview div

[will-emmerson]

No, I want to see the preview in the admin and allow editing via the admin, but on other pages I just want the rendered html without the preview. Django 1.5 had a markdown template tag but 1.6 doesn't, I'm just wondering if pagedown includes any.

[wckd]

@will-emmerson You can install the django-markdown-deux package, add 'markdown_deux' to INSTALLED_APPS and put {% load markdown_deux_tags %} in the head of your template.
You can then apply the markdown-filter on the variable that holds the markdown-content.

Heres an example:

{% extends 'base.html' %}
{% load markdown_deux_tags %}

{% block content %}
    <div class="blog-post">
        <h2 class="blog-post-title">{{ entry.title }}</h2>
        <p class="blog-post-meta">{{ entry.created }} by {{ entry.author.first_name }}</p>
        {{ entry.body|markdown }}
    </div>
    {% if user.is_superuser %}
        <a href="{% url 'entry_update' slug=entry.slug %}" role="button" class="btn btn-primary"> Edit</a>
    {% endif %}
{% endblock %

[timmyomahony]

I will add this to the README

[timmyomahony]

I've added a section at the bottom of the README addressing this, so hopefully it is clearer now:

https://github.com/timmyomahony/django-pagedown/blob/master/README.md#rendering-markdown-in-your-template

[hitarths]

There is a difference between the django-pagedown preview and the html generated by the django-markdown-deux. Specifically the preview from pagedown shows line breaks when I press enter, but when I render it using the deux tag, the line breaks are gone. BUT, it I put two line breaks, then deux DOES puts
tags.
I am not sure if its a bug in pagedown, or its just the fact that I am silly!

[timmyomahony]

@hitarths that's interesting, I haven't noticed that before. The django-markdown-deux library uses python-markdown2 behind the scenes. python-markdown2 allows configuration via "Extras". I notice a break-on-newline option there. Something like this might work (I haven't tested it though):

MARKDOWN_DEUX_STYLES = {
    "default": {
        "extras": {
            "break-on-newline": None,
        },
        # ...
    },
}