markdown-inline

Handles inline formatting: bold, italic, bold italic, strikethrough, and inline code.

Details

Property	Value
Name	markdown-inline
Priority	200
Type	Inline
Factory	markdownInline()

What It Handles

Bold

**bold text**
__bold text__

Renders as <strong>bold text</strong>.

Italic

*italic text*
_italic text_

Renders as <em>italic text</em>.

Bold Italic

***bold and italic***

Renders as <strong><em>bold and italic</em></strong>.

Strikethrough

~~deleted text~~

Renders as <del>deleted text</del>.

Inline Code

`inline code`
``code with `backtick` inside``

Renders as <code>inline code</code>. Content inside inline code is treated as raw text -- no further inline parsing occurs.

API

import { markdownInline } from '@generative-dom/plugins';

const plugin = markdownInline();

No configuration options.

Nesting

Inline formatting can be nested:

**bold with *italic* inside**
*italic with **bold** inside*
**bold with `code` inside**
~~deleted with **bold** inside~~

Inline code cannot contain other formatting -- everything inside backticks is literal.

Edge Cases

• Unmatched markers: A lone * or ** without a closing pair is treated as literal text.
• Word boundaries: foo_bar_baz does not produce italic. Underscore emphasis requires non-word characters at the boundaries.
• Empty emphasis: **** (empty bold) is treated as literal asterisks.
• Overlapping markers: *foo **bar* baz** -- Generative DOM resolves ambiguity by matching the first valid pair.
• Escaped markers: \*not italic\* is handled by the markdown-base plugin's escape logic.

Rendering

Syntax	Output Element
**text** or __text__	<strong>
*text* or _text_	<em>
***text***	<strong><em>
`code`	<code>
~~text~~	<del>