Why isn't MarkdownSharp encoding my HTML?

Question

In my mind, one of the bigger goals of Markdown is to prevent the user from typing potentially malformed HTML directly.

Well that isn\'t exactly working for me in Markdo

Answer 1

For those not wanting to use Steve Wortham's customized solution, I have submitted an issue and a proposed fix to the MarkdownSharp guys: http://code.google.com/p/markdownsharp/issues/detail?id=43

If you download my attached Markdown.cs file you will find a new option that you can set. It will stop MarkdownSharp from re-encoding text within the code blocks.

Just don't forget to HTML encode your input BEFORE you pass it into markdown, NOT after.

Another solution is to white-list HTML tags like Stack Overflow does. You would do this AFTER you pass your content to markdown.

See this for more information: http://www.CodeTunnel.com/blog/post/24/mardownsharp-and-encoded-html