League\CommonMark

This is the documentation for the unsupported version 2.0. Please consider upgrading your code to the latest stable version

Minimum PHP Version

The minimum supported PHP version was increased from 7.1 to 7.4.

CommonMarkConverter and GithubFlavoredMarkdownConverter constructors

The constructor methods for both CommonMarkConverter and GithubFlavoredMarkdownConverter no longer accept passing in a customized Environment. If you want to customize the extensions used in your converter you should switch to using MarkdownConverter. See the Basic Usage documentation for an example.

-use League\CommonMark\CommonMarkConverter;
 use League\CommonMark\Environment\Environment;
 use League\CommonMark\Extension\CommonMark\CommonMarkCoreExtension;
 use League\CommonMark\Extension\Table\TableExtension;
+use League\CommonMark\MarkdownConverter;
 
 $config = [
     'html_input' => 'escape',
     'allow_unsafe_links' => false,
     'max_nesting_level' => 100,
 ];
 
-$environment = new Environment();
+$environment = new Environment($config);
 $environment->addExtension(new CommonMarkCoreExtension());
 $environment->addExtension(new TableExtension());
 
-$converter = new CommonMarkConverter($config, $environment); // or GithubFlavoredMarkdownConverter
+$converter = new MarkdownConverter($environment);
 
 echo $converter->convertToHtml('Hello World!');

CommonMarkConverter Return Type

In 1.x, calling convertToHtml() would return a string. In 2.x this changed to return a RenderedContentInterface. To get the resulting HTML, either cast the return value to a string or call ->getContent(). (This new interface extends from Stringable so you can type hint against that instead, if needed.)

 use League\CommonMark\CommonMarkConverter;

 $converter = new CommonMarkConverter();
-echo $converter->convertToHtml('# Hello World!');
+echo $converter->convertToHtml('# Hello World!')->getContent();
+// or
+echo (string) $converter->convertToHtml('# Hello World!');

HTML Changes

Table of Contents items are no longer wrapped with <p> tags:

 <ul class="table-of-contents">
     <li>
-        <p><a href="#level-2-heading">Level 2 Heading</a></p>
+        <a href="#level-2-heading">Level 2 Heading</a>
     </li>
     <li>
-        <p><a href="#level-4-heading">Level 4 Heading</a></p>
+        <a href="#level-4-heading">Level 4 Heading</a>
     </li>
     <li>
-        <p><a href="#level-3-heading">Level 3 Heading</a></p>
+        <a href="#level-3-heading">Level 3 Heading</a>
     </li>
 </ul>

See #613 for details.

Additionally, the HTML (including URL fragments) for Heading Permalinks have changed:

-<h1><a id="user-content-hello-world" href="#hello-world" name="hello-world" class="heading-permalink" aria-hidden="true" title="Permalink">¶</a>Hello World!</h1>
+<h1><a id="content-hello-world" href="#content-hello-world" class="heading-permalink" aria-hidden="true" title="Permalink">¶</a>Hello World!</h1>

Note that the href now targets the id attribute instead of the name, which is deprecated in HTML 5. Additionally, the default prefix has changed to content. See the Heading Permalink extension documentation for more details on how to configure the prefixes.

Configuration Option Changes

Several configuration options now have new names:

Method Return Types

Return types have been added to virtually all class and interface methods. If you implement or extend anything from this library, ensure you also have the proper return types added.

Configuration Classes Relocated

The following classes have been moved to the league/config package:

Classes/Namespaces Renamed

Many classes now live in different namespaces, and some have also been renamed. Here’s a quick guide showing their new locations:

(Note that the base namespace of League\CommonMark has been omitted from this table for brevity.)

Most of these won’t be relevant unless your integration allows people to add/remove extensions, parsers, etc. and you might reference those classes directly. Otherwise, if you simply expose the basic classes to developers, check out the shorter, partial list in the consumer upgrade guide.

Rendering Changes

This library no longer differentiates between block renderers and inline renderers - everything now uses “node renderers” which allow us to have a unified approach to rendering! As a result, the following changes were made, which you may need to change in your custom extensions:

Renderers now implement the unified NodeRendererInterface which has a similar (but slightly different) signature from the old BlockRendererInterface and InlineRendererInterface interfaces:

/**
 * @param Node                       $node
 * @param ChildNodeRendererInterface $childRenderer
 *
 * @return HtmlElement|string|null
 */
public function render(Node $node, ChildNodeRendererInterface $childRenderer);

The element being rendered is still passed in the first argument, and the object that helps you render children is still passed in the second argument. Note that blocks are no longer told whether they’re being rendered in a tight list - if you need to know about this, traverse up the $node AST yourself and check any ListBlock ancestor for tightness.

Removed Classes

The following classes have been removed:

Renamed constants

The following constants have been moved/renamed:

Renamed Methods

The following methods have been renamed:

Configuration Method Changes

Calling EnvironmentInterface::getConfig() without any parameters is no longer supported.

Calling ConfigurableEnvironmentInterface::mergeConfig() without any parameters is no longer supported.

The ConfigurableEnvironmentInterface::setConfig() method has been removed. Use getConfig() instead.

bin/commonmark command

This command was buggy to test and was relatively unpopular, so it has been removed. If you need this type of functionality, consider writing your own script with a Converter/Environment configured exactly how you want it.

CommonMarkConverter::VERSION constant

This previously-deprecated constant was removed in 2.0 Use \Composer\InstalledVersions provided by composer-runtime-api instead.

HeadingPermalinkRenderer::DEFAULT_INNER_CONTENTS constant

This previously-deprecated constant was removed in 2.0. Use HeadingPermalinkRenderer::DEFAULT_SYMBOL instead.

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