Markdown to HTML and BBCode!

note, the converter currently is not 100% compatible with CW's BBCode, but compatibility will come eventually! For demonstration purposes, I made no modifications to the output of my program, even though it doesn't work entirely.

A few weeks ago, I had the not-so-crazy idea to write a Markdown renderer in JavaScript. This isn't that hard, Markdown is designed to be easily converted into HTML.

Last night, I realized that BBCode is also designed to be turned into HTML and formatting in Markdown is much more concise than BBCode. Maybe I can write posts faster in Markdown!

This is the result of about a hour of work. The converter uses Regular Expressions to match the Markdown formatting in the input text and replace it with the appropriate BBCode and HTML tags. Here's what I have so far:

[size=20]Headings[/size]
[size=16]Subheadings[/size]
(The Markdown to HTML lets you how down to h4, but I'm too lazy to add this to the BBCode version)
[strike]strikethrough[/strike]
bold
italics
Inline [mono]code[/mono]

Code Select

Code 
blocks

lists
more list (it joins adjacent list elements appropriately)

Links
Horizontal bars:

Images:

This post was converted from Markdown into BBCode using the Markdown -> BBCode converter! You can see the source code for this post here

You can find the converter at https://legend-of-iphoenix.github.io/markdown-bbcode-html/.

To-do