Prevent Markdownify to strip first p tags

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This is what I use in quite many layout files and shortcodes:

There’s also @imjasonmiller’s solution:

{{ $markdown := .intro | markdownify }}

{{ if not ( strings.Contains $markdown "<p>" ) }}
    <p>{{ $markdown }}</p>
{{ else }}
    {{ $markdown }}
{{ end }}

However, both of these suffer from the same issue, which is that they work fine with a plain sentence, but will break with headings. That is, puttting the solution in a shortcode called markdownifyshortcode , and

{{ "# heading" | markdownifyshortcode }}

will output invalid HTML.

<p><h1 id="test">test</h1></p>.

Here’s a solution that should work for most scenarios - it will add missing <p> tags if there’s no <p> or <h1,2,3,...> tags but will ignore other tags such as <span> or <em>:

{{- $markdown := .Inner | markdownify -}}

{{ if not ( findRE "<[h|p][^>]*>" $markdown ) }}
    <p>{{ $markdown }}</p>
{{ else }}
    {{ $markdown }}
{{ end }}
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