Special characters in markdown

[syeda-git]

Is it possible to report in log or stop building HTML when there are special characters (< and > in this case) in markdown?

If there are < and > characters in HTML files, the translation engine fails to parse such files.

For example, this para has two strings with < and > characters. I would like Material for MkDocs to report in log or stop building when such characters are found in Markdown.

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Thanks...
Syed

[squidfunk]

The Markdown parser escapes them as < and >, so I'm not sure why this is necessary? Other than that, you could write a hook and inspect on_page_markdown to check for those characters and fail the build. Similar to:

def on_page_markdown(markdown, *, page, config, files):
    if "<" in markdown or ">" in markdown:
        # Do something ...

Note that using HTML in Markdown is valid, so the hook above would run when it sees any HTML tag.