Gatsby Remark Blocks

A plugin for gatsby-transformer-remark to frame Markdown AST (mdast) elements in an HTML div, creating a block in the layout.

You might want blocks if you're working on a novel layout where content is on one cohesive grid system, but positioned at different x/y positions and at different widths/heights.

Input:

# Hello, World!

Output:

<div class="markdown-heading">
    <h1>Hello, World!</h1>
</div>

Getting Started

Install with npm:

npm i gatsby-remark-blocks -S

Add to the config-gatsby.js file:

module.exports = { 
    plugins: [
        {
            resolve: 'gatsby-transformer-remark',
            options: {
                plugins: [
                    'gatsby-remark-blocks',
                    ...
                ]
            }
        }
    ]
}

Config

If you want to change the default CSS class names, add the custom class names to the plugin options:

module.exports = { 
    plugins: [
        {
            resolve: 'gatsby-transformer-remark',
            options: {
                plugins: [
                    {
                        resolve: 'gatsby-remark-blocks',
                        options: {
                            classNames: {
                                heading: 'custom-heading',
                                list: 'custom-list',
                                orderedList: 'custom-ordered-list',
                                unorderedList: 'custom-unordered-list',
                                blockquote: 'custom-blockquote',
                                paragraph: 'custom-paragraph',
                            },
                        },
                    },
                    ...
                ]
            }
        }
    ]
}

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