// From https://gist.github.com/1343518, modified to not load showdown (function boom(){ [].forEach.call( document.querySelectorAll('[data-markdown]'), function fn(elem){ // strip leading whitespace so it isn't evaluated as code var text = elem.innerHTML.replace(/\n\s*\n/g,'\n'), // set indentation level so your markdown can be indented within your HTML leadingws = text.match(/^\n?(\s*)/)[1].length, regex = new RegExp('\\n?\\s{' + leadingws + '}','g'), md = text.replace(regex,'\n'), html = (new Showdown.converter()).makeHtml(md); // here, have sum HTML elem.innerHTML = html; }); }());