Redirecting this discussion to openjfx-dev (which is where it belongs).
-- Kevin
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Subject: Re: JavaFX WebView and markdown rendering...
Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2024 06:58:14 -0800
From: Kevin Rushforth <kevin.rushfo...@oracle.com>
To: Davide Perini <perini.dav...@dpsoftware.org>,
openjfx-disc...@openjdk.org
No, WebView does not render markdown. That is something done on the
server. Some websites (e.g., GitHub) will render markdown by generating
the appropriate HTML on the fly.
I can reproduce what you are seeing using a GitHub gist containing a
simple markdown file:
https://gist.github.com/kevinrushforth/26a76c5ccd2d41df798c2a29542a3414
That page is rendered correctly in Chrome and Firefox. It shows both
bold and italic for the last line of text (the one that reads "This is
some bold text and some italicized text"). The"GitHub openjdk/jfx" link
also works and takes you to the openjdk/jfx repo on GitHub.
When rendered using WebView (on Windows 11 at least), everything is
correctly rendered except the bold text. The link works correctly.
I'm not sure where the problem is, but I can file a bug. It might be
related to synthetic bolding of text...we've had other bugs in that area
in the past. I can't recall whether there are still outstanding bugs.
-- Kevin
On 1/6/2024 4:22 AM, Davide Perini wrote:
I think that the webview itself is able to turn the markdown into
something that is correctly rendered.
[this text](http://acme.org)
for example is correctly turned into a clickable link, where the text
of the link is "this text" and the click opens the acme.org website.
I'm not really into the webview implementation...
Il 05/01/2024 22:34, Tom Eugelink ha scritto:
I'm missing the part on how the markdown is turned into HTML. Because
the WebView cannot render markdown directly...?
Bold in HTML is not done using **, it is done with font-weight
(https://www.udacity.com/blog/2021/01/html-css-font-weight.html) or
<b> (https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_b.asp), so something is
turning that ** into actual HTML, and that is not working.
On 2024-01-05 18:45, Davide Perini wrote:
Hi all,
I have a simple javafx.scene.web.WebView
code is as simple as this:
WebViewwv =new WebView();
wv.getEngine().load(webUrl);
Alert alert = createAlert(title, header, alertType);
alert.getDialogPane().setContent(wv);
alert.showAndWait();
As you can see the webview loads a webUrl, that web url returns a
markdown.
Mark down is correctly rendered, I can see correct headings, links
are interpreted correctly like links and are clickable, ecc.
The only things that seems to not work is the bold text.
Bold text **like this** or __like this__
is interpreted "like this", without the ** or __
but it's not bold, it is rendered like a normal text.
Any idea on how to fix it? :)
Thanks
Davide
