CBMarkdown Skill

When to Use This Skill

Load this skill when:

• Rendering blog post bodies, documentation, or comments written in Markdown
• Converting Markdown to HTML in a service or view
• Combining cbmarkdown with cbantisamy to safely render user-submitted Markdown

Installation

box install cbmarkdown

Core API

Injection

property name="markdown" inject="Processor@cbmarkdown";

Convert to HTML

// Simple conversion
var html = markdown.toHTML( "# Hello **World**" )

// Multiline content
var content = "## Section Title

Paragraph text with **bold** and *italic*.

- Item one
- Item two

```javascript
console.log('code block')

" var html = markdown.toHTML( content )

## Production Patterns

### In a Service / Handler

```js
class PostService {
    @inject("Processor@cbmarkdown")
    property name="markdown";

    function renderPost( required post ) {
        return {
            id      : post.getId(),
            title   : post.getTitle(),
            body    : markdown.toHTML( post.getBody() ),
            excerpt : markdown.toHTML( post.getExcerpt() )
        }
    }
}

In a View

<!--- Blog post body --->
<article>
    <h1>#encodeForHTML( prc.post.getTitle() )#</h1>
    <div class="post-body">
        #markdown.toHTML( prc.post.getBody() )#
    </div>
</article>

Safe Rendering of User-Submitted Markdown

Markdown to HTML can still produce XSS vectors. Sanitize after converting:

class CommentService {
    @inject("Processor@cbmarkdown")
    property name="markdown";
    @inject("AntiSamy@cbantisamy")
    property name="antiSamy";

    function renderComment( required string raw ) {
        // Convert Markdown → HTML, then sanitize the HTML output
        var html = markdown.toHTML( raw )
        return antiSamy.withPolicy( "relaxed" ).clean( html )
    }
}

Supported Markdown Syntax

Feature	Syntax
Headers	# H1, ## H2, ### H3
Bold	**bold**
Italic	*italic*
Unordered list	- item
Ordered list	1. item
Link	[text](url)
Image	
Fenced code	```lang ```
Inline code	`code`
Table (GFM)	| col | col |
Blockquote	> quote
Horizontal rule	---

Best Practices

• Always sanitize user-submitted Markdown after conversion using cbantisamy
• Do not sanitize trusted author content (CMS editors, admins) — only user-generated input
• Cache rendered HTML for expensive/large documents rather than re-rendering on each request
• Use encodeForHTML() for plain title/metadata fields; reserve toHTML() for body fields only

Documentation

• cbmarkdown: https://github.com/coldbox-modules/cbmarkdown
• Flexmark (underlying parser): https://github.com/vsch/flexmark-java