silverbullet/website/Markdown/Code Widgets.md

Code widgets are a SilverBullet specific “extension” to Markdown. Technically, it’s not an extension — it just gives new meaning to markdown’s native fenced code blocks — code blocks that start with a triple backtick, specifying a programming language.

Currently, SilverBullet provides two code widgets as part of its built-in 🔌 Plugs:

• embed
• markdown

In addition, plugs like 🔌 KaTeX and 🔌 Mermaid add additional ones.

Embed

This allows you to embed internet content into your page inside of an iframe. This is useful to, for instance, embed youtube videos. In fact, there is specific support for those.

Two examples.

First, embedding the silverbullet.md website inside the silverbullet.md website (inception!):

url: https://silverbullet.md
height: 500

and a Youtube video:

url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VemS-cqAD5k

Note, there is specific support for youtube videos — it automatically will set width, height and replaces the URL with an embed URL.

The body of an embed block is written in YAML and supports the following attributes:

• url (mandatory): the URL of the content to embed
• height (optional): the height of the embedded page in pixels
• width (optional): the width of the embedded page in pixels

Markdown

You can embed markdown inside of markdown and live preview it. Is this useful? 🤷 Not particularly, it’s more of a demo of how this works. Nevertheless, to each their own, here’s an example:

This is going to be **bold**