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Generate a Table of Contents (TOC) from a given Markdown file

Package Exports

  • mdast-util-toc
  • mdast-util-toc/lib/search

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mdast-util-toc

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mdast utility to generate table of contents.

Install

npm:

npm install mdast-util-toc

Usage

Dependencies:

var u = require('unist-builder')
var toc = require('mdast-util-toc')

Given a mdast tree:

var tree = u('root', [
  u('heading', {depth: 1}, [u('text', 'Alpha')]),
  u('heading', {depth: 2}, [u('text', 'Bravo')]),
  u('heading', {depth: 3}, [u('text', 'Charlie')]),
  u('heading', {depth: 2}, [u('text', 'Delta')])
])
var table = toc(tree)

Yields:

{
  index: null,
  endIndex: null,
  map: {
    type: 'list',
    ordered: false,
    spread: true,
    children: [
      {
        type: 'listItem',
        loose: true,
        spread: true,
        children: [Array]
      }
    ]
  }
}

API

toc(tree[, options])

Generate a Table of Contents from a tree.

Looks for the first heading matching options.heading (case insensitive, supports alt/title attributes for links and images too), and returns a table of contents (list) for all following headings. If no heading is specified, creates a table of contents for all headings in tree. tree is not changed.

Links to headings are based on GitHub’s style. Only top-level headings (those not in blockquotes or lists), are used. This default behavior can be changed by passing parents.

options
options.heading

Heading to look for (string), wrapped in new RegExp('^(' + value + ')$', 'i').

options.maxDepth

Maximum heading depth to include in the table of contents (number, default: 6), This is inclusive: when set to 3, level three headings are included (those with three hashes, ###).

options.tight

Whether to compile list-items tightly (boolean?, default: false).

options.prefix

Add a prefix to links to headings in the table of contents (string?, default: null). Useful for example when later going from mdast to hast and sanitizing with hast-util-sanitize.

options.parents

Allows headings to be children of certain node types (default: the to toc given tree, to only allow top-level headings). Internally, uses unist-util-is to check, so parents can be any is-compatible test.

For example, this would allow headings under either root or blockquote to be used:

toc(tree, {parents: ['root', 'blockquote']})
Returns

An object representing the table of contents.

Properties
  • index (number?) — Index of the found table of contents heading in tree. -1 if no heading was found, null if no heading was given
  • endIndex (number?) — Index of the last node after heading before the TOC starts. -1 if no heading was found, null if no heading was given, same as index if there are no nodes between heading and the first heading in the TOC
  • map (Node?) — List representing the generated table of contents. null if no table of contents could be created, either because no heading was found or because no following headings were found

Contribute

See contributing.md in syntax-tree/.github for ways to get started. See support.md for ways to get help.

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License

MIT © Jonathan Haines