The minimal amount of CSS to replicate the GitHub Markdown style
The CSS is generated. Contributions should go to
.

Install
Download
, from
, or with npm:
npm install github-markdown-cssUsage
Import the github-markdown.css file and add a markdown-body class to the container of your rendered Markdown and set a width for it. GitHub uses 980px width and 45px padding, and 15px padding for mobile.
<metaname="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><linkrel="stylesheet" href="github-markdown.css"><style> .markdown-body { box-sizing: border-box; min-width:200px; max-width:980px; margin:0 auto; padding:45px; } @media (max-width:767px) { .markdown-body { padding:15px; } } @media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) { body { background-color:#0d1117; } } </style><articleclass="markdown-body"><h1>Unicorns</h1><p>All the things</p></article>You can use
to turn Markdown into the HTML that GitHub generates, which works well with the CSS in this repo. Other Markdown parsers will mostly work with these styles too. To mimic how GitHub highlights code, you can use
with your Markdown parser of choice.
There are 7 themes provided in this package:
github-markdown.css: (default) Automatically switches between light and dark through
.
github-markdown-light.css: Light-only.
github-markdown-dark.css: Dark-only.
github-markdown-dark-dimmed.css: Dark dimmed.
github-markdown-dark-high-contrast.css: Dark high contrast.
github-markdown-dark-colorblind.css: Dark Protanopia & Deuteranopia.
github-markdown-light-colorblind.css: Light Protanopia & Deuteranopia.
How
See
for how it's generated and ability to generate your own.
Troubleshooting
If you encounter styling issues, like tables in dark mode rendering their fonts in black, the browser might uses
by accident.
To avoid quirks mode, always include a doctype at the top of your page.
<!doctype html><htmllang="en"><head></head><body></body></html>Dev
Run npm run make to update the CSS.