[SOLVED] Setting bgcolor in markdown

Setting bgcolor in markdown

I want to set the page bgcolor through markdown.

Is there any way besides explicitly including, say, <body bgcolor="#336655"> in the .md file? In particular, this seems to be implemented incorrectly. E.g. the following minimal file:

% Page Title

<body bgcolor="#336655">

## Some Body

Produces the following HTML file (through pandoc -s -o test.html test.md)

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
  <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css" />
  <meta name="generator" content="pandoc" />
  <title>Page Title</title>
  <style type="text/css">code{white-space: pre;}</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="header">
<h1 class="title">Page Title</h1>
</div>
<body bgcolor="#336655">
<h2 id="some-body">Some Body</h2>
</body>
</html>

In particular, the <body> tag I included did not overwrite the main <body> tag produced, as I'd intended (closing with </body> in the markdown doesn't change this).

Placing the <body> tag prior to the % Page Title line shuts down the interpretation of that line as the page title -- it just formats as % Page Title in plain text.

Is there no way to control the overall page background in markdown?

Solution

You should change the pandoc template for that and insert the needed CSS. Don't do styling in HTML, it's not the 90s anymore...

$ pandoc -D html > template.html

edit it to include:

<style type="text/css">
  body {
    background-color: #336655;
  }
</style>

then

$ pandoc -s --template template.html -o output.html input.md