A reminder of the original design goal of Markdown - my personal thoughts

[John Gruber]

Michel Fortin <michel.fortin at michelf.com> wrote on 9/5/05 at 1:36 PM:


> Now, I also think you have a good point: there is no reason to allow  

> this syntax everywhere if it is not needed. While I think the id  

> attribute is pretty necessary for headers, I'm less sure about other  

> attributes and other elements. Currently, I see these as "important":

> 

> *   Cite attribute for blockqutoes

> *   Image width and height (maybe)

> *   Class attribute (do we need this absolutely everywhere?)


I think we will have to limit the scopes where `{...}` attributes can be
applied. For example, it might be nice to say that we should support
them for paragraphs. So you could write:

    This is a paragraph. {.foo}

and it would be turned into:

    <p class="foo">This is a paragraph.</p>

Or list items:

    *   This is a list item. {.foo}

But then what about this:

    *   First item
    
    *   Second item.
    
        Second paragraph. {.foo}

What does the `{.foo}` apply to? The paragraph? Or to the entire second
item in the list?

I'm not sure this complexity is worthwhile.

-J.G.