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Support Markdown in nested HTML

See original GitHub issue

Subject of the issue

Currently, MDX crashes on Markdown in nested HTML. Example:

<div>

* list

</div>

Works.

<div>
  <div>

  * list

  </div>
</div>

Crashes! Resulting in something like:

error UNHANDLED REJECTION


  SyntaxError: unknown: Expected corresponding JSX closing tag for <MDXTag> (30:0)
    28 | <MDXTag name="li" components={components} parentName="ul">
    29 | <MDXTag name="p" components={components} parentName="li">{`list`}</MDXTag>
  > 30 | </div>
       | ^
    31 | </MDXTag>
    32 | </MDXTag>
    33 | </div>

This makes it impossible to use Markdown in a table, since you need to nest some table, tr, and td tags in HTML.

Your environment

Tried with the create-react-app example:

    "mdx.macro": "^0.2.8",
    "react": "^16.8.4",
    "react-dom": "^16.8.4",
    "react-scripts": "2.1.8"

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 4 years ago
Reactions:2
Comments:9 (3 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

8reactions

morloycommented, Apr 26, 2019

@Undistraction I think that’s already supported. But you need to add a space:

<Example>

# Example
</Example>

2reactions

Undistractioncommented, Apr 26, 2019

@johno Do you plan to support Markdown in only HTML:

<div>
# Example
</div>

or inside a Component?

<Example>
# Example
</Example>

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