caption: wikify
created: 20160321144949700
modified: 20220122191540121
tags: Widgets
title: WikifyWidget
type: text/vnd.tiddlywiki

! Introduction

The wikify widget parses and renders a string of text and assigns the result to a specified [[variable|Variables]]. The new value of the variable is available to the content within the wikify widget.

! Content and Attributes

The content of the `<$wikify>` widget is the scope for the value assigned to the variable.

|!Attribute |!Description |
|name |The name of the variable to assign |
|text |The text to parse and render |
|type |The ContentType of the text (defaults to `text/vnd.tiddlywiki`) |
|mode |The parse mode: [[block|Block Mode WikiText]] (the default) or [[inline|Inline Mode WikiText]] |
|output |Keyword indicating the desired output type, defaulting to `text` (see below) |

The available output types are:

|!Keyword |!Description |
|text |Return the plain text of the rendered output (ie HTML tags are omitted) |
|formattedtext |Return the plain text with simple text formatting of the rendered output (ie HTML tags are omitted) |
|html |Return the rendered HTML of the output |
|parsetree |Return a formatted JSON representation of the parse tree |
|widgettree |Return a formatted JSON representation of the widget tree |