(md/plugins)=

Plugin extensions

The following plugins are embedded within the core package:

tables (GFM)
strikethrough (GFM)

These can be enabled individually:

from markdown_it import MarkdownIt
md = MarkdownIt("commonmark").enable('table')

or as part of a configuration:

from markdown_it import MarkdownIt
md = MarkdownIt("gfm-like")

See [](using.md)

Many other plugins are then available via the mdit-py-plugins package, including:

Front-matter
Footnotes
Definition lists
Task lists
Heading anchors
LaTeX math
Containers
Word count

For full information see: https://mdit-py-plugins.readthedocs.io

Or you can write them yourself!

They can be chained and loaded via:

from markdown_it import MarkdownIt
from mdit_py_plugins import plugin1, plugin2
md = MarkdownIt().use(plugin1, keyword=value).use(plugin2, keyword=value)
html_string = md.render("some *Markdown*")