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Heading Permalink Extension
This extension makes all of your heading elements (<h1>, <h2>, etc) linkable so that users can quickly grab a link to that specific part of the document - almost like the headings in this documentation!
Tip: You can combine this with the Table of Contents extension to automatically generate a list of links to the headings in your documents.
Installation
This extension is bundled with league/commonmark. This library can be installed via Composer:
composer require league/commonmark
See the installation section for more details.
Usage
This extension can be added to any new Environment:
use League\CommonMark\Environment;
use League\CommonMark\Extension\HeadingPermalink\HeadingPermalinkExtension;
use League\CommonMark\Extension\HeadingPermalink\HeadingPermalinkRenderer;
use League\CommonMark\MarkdownConverter;
use League\CommonMark\Normalizer\SlugNormalizer;
// Obtain a pre-configured Environment with all the CommonMark parsers/renderers ready-to-go
$environment = Environment::createCommonMarkEnvironment();
// Add this extension
$environment->addExtension(new HeadingPermalinkExtension());
// Set your configuration
$environment->mergeConfig([
// Extension defaults are shown below
// If you're happy with the defaults, feel free to remove them from this array
'heading_permalink' => [
'html_class' => 'heading-permalink',
'id_prefix' => 'user-content',
'insert' => 'before',
'title' => 'Permalink',
'symbol' => HeadingPermalinkRenderer::DEFAULT_SYMBOL,
'slug_normalizer' => new SlugNormalizer(),
],
]);
// Instantiate the converter engine and start converting some Markdown!
$converter = new MarkdownConverter($environment);
echo $converter->convertToHtml('# Hello World!');
Configuration
This extension can be configured by providing a heading_permalink array with several nested configuration options. The defaults are shown in the code example above.
html_class
The value of this nested configuration option should be a string that you want set as the <a> tag’s class attribute. This defaults to 'heading-permalink'.
id_prefix
This should be a string you want prepended to HTML IDs. This prevents generating HTML ID attributes which might conflict with others in your stylesheet. A dash separator (-) will be added between the prefix and the ID. You can instead set this to an empty string ('') if you don’t want a prefix.
inner_contents (deprecated since 1.5.0)
This controls the HTML you want to appear inside of the generated <a> tag. Usually this would be something you would
style as some kind of link icon, but you can replace this with any custom HTML you wish.
This option was deprecated in 1.5.0 and will be removed in 2.0.0. Use the symbol option instead.
This option has no default value and if one is provided, a deprecation warning will be triggered and the symbol
config option below will be ignored completely.
See the Upgrade Guide for more information.
insert
This controls whether the anchor is added to the beginning of the <h1>, <h2> etc. tag or to the end. Can be set to either 'before' or 'after'.
symbol
This option sets the symbol used to display the permalink on the document. This defaults to \League\CommonMark\Extension\HeadingPermalink\HeadingPermalinkRenderer::DEFAULT_SYMBOL = '¶'.
If you want to use a custom icon, then set this to an empty string '' and check out the Adding Icons sections below.
Note: Special HTML characters (
" & < >) provided here will be escaped for security reasons.
title
This option sets the title attribute on the <a> tag. This defaults to 'Permalink'.
slug_normalizer
“Slugs” are the strings used within the href, name, and id attributes to identify a particular permalink.
By default, this extension will generate slugs based on the contents of the heading, just like GitHub-Flavored Markdown does.
You can change the string that is used as the “slug” by setting the slug_normalizer option to any class that implements TextNormalizerInterface.
For example, if you’d like each slug to be an MD5 hash, you could create a class like this:
use League\CommonMark\Normalizer\TextNormalizerInterface;
final class MD5Normalizer implements TextNormalizerInterface
{
public function normalize(string $text, $context = null): string
{
return md5($text);
}
}
And then configure it like this:
$config = [
'heading_permalink' => [
// ... other options here ...
'slug_normalizer' => new MD5Normalizer(),
],
];
Or you could use PHP’s anonymous class feature to define the generator’s behavior without creating a new class file:
$config = [
'heading_permalink' => [
// ... other options here ...
'slug_normalizer' => new class implements TextNormalizerInterface {
public function normalize(string $text, $context = null): string
{
// TODO: Implement your code here
}
},
],
];
Example
If you wanted to style your headings exactly like this documentation page does, try this configuration!
$config = [
'heading_permalink' => [
'html_class' => 'heading-permalink',
'insert' => 'after',
'symbol' => '¶',
'title' => "Permalink",
],
];
Along with this CSS:
.heading-permalink {
font-size: .8em;
vertical-align: super;
text-decoration: none;
color: transparent;
}
h1:hover .heading-permalink,
h2:hover .heading-permalink,
h3:hover .heading-permalink,
h4:hover .heading-permalink,
h5:hover .heading-permalink,
h6:hover .heading-permalink,
.heading-permalink:hover {
text-decoration: none;
color: #777;
}
Styling Ideas
This library doesn’t provide any CSS styling for the anchor element(s), but here are some ideas you could use in your own stylesheet.
You could hide the icon until the user hovers over the heading:
.heading-permalink {
visibility: hidden;
}
h1:hover .heading-permalink,
h2:hover .heading-permalink,
h3:hover .heading-permalink,
h4:hover .heading-permalink,
h5:hover .heading-permalink,
h6:hover .heading-permalink
{
visibility: visible;
}
You could also float the symbol just a little bit left of the heading:
.heading-permalink {
float: left;
padding-right: 4px;
margin-left: -20px;
line-height: 1;
}
These are only ideas - feel free to customize this however you’d like!
Adding Icons
You can also use CSS to add a custom icon instead of providing a symbol:
$config = [
'heading_permalink' => [
'html_class' => 'heading-permalink',
'symbol' => '',
],
];
Then targeting the html_class given in the configuration in your CSS:
/**
* Custom SVG Icon.
*/
.heading-permalink::after {
display: inline-block;
content: "";
/**
* Octicon Link (https://iconify.design/icon-sets/octicon/link.html)
* [Pro Tip] Use an SVG URL encoder (https://yoksel.github.io/url-encoder).
*/
background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' aria-hidden='true' style='-ms-transform:rotate(360deg);-webkit-transform:rotate(360deg)' viewBox='0 0 16 16' transform='rotate(360)'%3E%3Cpath fill-rule='evenodd' d='M4 9h1v1H4c-1.5 0-3-1.69-3-3.5S2.55 3 4 3h4c1.45 0 3 1.69 3 3.5 0 1.41-.91 2.72-2 3.25V8.59c.58-.45 1-1.27 1-2.09C10 5.22 8.98 4 8 4H4c-.98 0-2 1.22-2 2.5S3 9 4 9zm9-3h-1v1h1c1 0 2 1.22 2 2.5S13.98 12 13 12H9c-.98 0-2-1.22-2-2.5 0-.83.42-1.64 1-2.09V6.25c-1.09.53-2 1.84-2 3.25C6 11.31 7.55 13 9 13h4c1.45 0 3-1.69 3-3.5S14.5 6 13 6z' fill='%23626262'/%3E%3C/svg%3E");
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-size: 1em;
}