[ckan-dev] Problems with Markdown support in CKAN content

Thu May 8 04:46:18 UTC 2014

Hi Florian,

Can you add an issue for this. I think supporting more markdown syntax
sounds sensible.

Nigel Babu
Developer, Open Knowledge

On 8 May 2014 09:56, Florian May <florian.wendelin.mayer at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Nigel, all,
>
> I've come across the same problem - I would like to use superscript /
> subscript in CKAN's description fields.
>
> Is there a possibility to re-enable HTML rendering through a config flag,
> or support more markdown syntax (probably a saner idea)?
>
> Cheers,
> Florian
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Nigel Babu <nigel.babu at okfn.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi Ralf,
>>
>> CKAN specifically filters adding HTML to Markdown fields for security
>> reasons.
>>
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>> On 15 November 2013 17:28, Ralf <user66 at arcor.de> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am having problems inserting raw HTML into the content of pages to be
>>> added within the GUI, like under /ckan-admin/config -> "About:".
>>>
>>> According to the Markdown formatting doc linked from the CKAN GUI (
>>> http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax) it should be
>>> possible to add images using <img> tag. But that does not work for me.
>>>
>>> Does CKAN fully support all Markdown features?
>>> Is there anybody having success e.g. adding <img> tags?
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Ralf
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