Deactivate specific markdown options

Kirby 3 Solved ✅
1

I have this line in a textarea field in the panel:

25. - 30. September 2018
Raum 2.70

which renders as:

<ol start="25">
<li>
<ul>
<li>
<ol start="30">
<li>September 2018<br>
Raum 2.70</li>
</ol>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ol>

which is of course understandable behavior, but definitely not wanted here.

I know I can use a backslash to escape dots and dashes, but a lot of content is imported from text files so I’d like to avoid manually going through all of it.

But I basically only need kirbytags and line breaks on this specific field type, so is there a way to disable specific formatting options in the markdown parser? Or another approach I could try?

2

I don’t think you can simply deactivate it. I basically see two/three options:

  1. A custom kirbytext() method that just does the kirbytag parsing without the markdown parsing.
  2. A custom markdown component, that doesn’t do any Markdown parsing: https://getkirby.com/docs/reference/plugins/components/markdown
  3. Don’t use textarea with Markdown/Kirbytext, but the new blocks field.
3

Thanks!
(2) Is it possible to use a custom markdown component on specific fields only or will this new plugin automatically be applied globally?

4

Good question, don’t know.

5

No, the custom component would be globally used.

6

I think a custom field method would probably be the best option then.

7 
<?php

Kirby::plugin('bruno/field-methods', [
    'fieldMethods' => [
        'ktNoMarkdown' => function ($field) {
            return nl2br(kirbytags($field->value));
        }
    ]
]);

I think this does it for now. Thanks @distantnative & @texnixe!

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