Including a javascript file with pandoc when going from markdown to html

Question

I am using pandoc to convert a markdown file to standalone html file. I have css file that I include with the -c command-line option. I would like to do the same thing with a javascript file, but I have not found an option to include script files similar to the -c option.

Is there such an option? If not, what is the most efficient way to do the inclusion?

Transportation

Answer 1

Use the header-includes variable in the YAML metadata header (and run pandoc -s):

---
header-includes: <script src="foo"></script>
---

my markdown document

Brianna

the link points to the manual, not directly to the variable. Maybe they released the anchors in the help. – Mccutcheon

@Mccutcheon thanks, I updated the link to the section where it's been moved to... – Brianna

how did you know that there is an anchor? My answer below also has a link, but the https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#General-writer-options url does not work properly because the anchor is not really correct. – Mccutcheon

developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Page_Inspector/How_to/… :-) – Brianna

Answer 2

More convenient could be to use the flag

`-H FILE, --include-in-header=FILE|URL`

as described here in the pandoc call. It implies --standalone.

Mccutcheon