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Simplify documentation and avoid heavy tools. Open source Visio Alternative. Commonly used for explaining your code! Mermaid is a simple markdown-like script language for generating charts from text via javascript.
Mermaid Flow is a Visual Mermaid live editor that aims to simplify creating Mermaid JS Diagrams online. Currently Mermaid Flow supports Flowchart diagrams, giving you the ability to Drag and Drop nodes, edges and labels to create your Flowchart diagrams visually.
- Node Shapes
- Links Between Nodes
- Special Characters That Break Syntax
- Markdown Strings
- Interaction
- Styling and Classes
- Basic Support For Fontawesome
- Graph Declarations with Spaces Between Vertices and Link and Without Semicolon
- Configuration
A node in an asymmetric shape
Currently only the shape above is possible and not its mirror. This might change with future releases.
Nodes can be connected with links/edges. It is possible to have different types of links or attach a text string to a link.
It is possible to put text within quotes in order to render more troublesome characters. As in the example below:
The "Markdown Strings" feature enhances flowcharts and mind maps by offering a more versatile string type, which supports text formatting options such as bold and italics, and automatically wraps text within labels. Formatting: 1. For bold text, use double asterisks (**) before and after the text. 2. For italics, use single asterisks (*) before and...
It is possible to bind a click event to a node, the click can lead to either a javascript callback or to a link which will be opened in a new browser tab. 1. nodeId is the id of the node 2. callback is the name of a javascript function defined on the page displaying the graph, the function will be called with the nodeId as parameter. Examples of to...
Styling links
It is possible to style links. For instance, you might want to style a link that is going backwards in the flow. As links have no ids in the same way as nodes, some other way of deciding what style the links should be attached to is required. Instead of ids, the order number of when the link was defined in the graph is used, or use default to apply to all links. In the example below the style defined in the linkStyle statement will belong to the fourth link in the graph: It is also possible t...
Styling line curves
It is possible to style the type of curve used for lines between items, if the default method does not meet your needs. Available curve styles include basis, bumpX, bumpY, cardinal, catmullRom, linear, monotoneX, monotoneY, natural, step, stepAfter, and stepBefore. In this example, a left-to-right graph uses the stepBeforecurve style: For a full list of available curves, including an explanation of custom curves, refer to the Shapes documentation in the d3-shapeproject.
Styling a node
It is possible to apply specific styles such as a thicker border or a different background color to a node.
It is possible to add icons from fontawesome. The icons are accessed via the syntax fa:#icon class name#. Mermaid supports Font Awesome if the CSS is included on the website. Mermaid does not have any restriction on the version of Font Awesome that can be used. Please refer the Official Font Awesome Documentationon how to include it in your website...
In graph declarations, the statements also can now end without a semicolon. After release 0.2.16, ending a graph statement with semicolon is just optional. So the below graph declaration is also va...A single space is allowed between vertices and the link. However there should not be any space between a vertex and its text and a link and its text. The old syntax of graph declaration will also w...Renderer
The layout of the diagram is done with the renderer. The default renderer is dagre. Starting with Mermaid version 9.4, you can use an alternate renderer named elk. The elk renderer is better for larger and/or more complex diagrams. The elkrenderer is an experimental feature. You can change the renderer to elk by adding this directive:
Width
It is possible to adjust the width of the rendered flowchart. This is done by defining mermaid.flowchartConfigor by the CLI to use a JSON file with the configuration. How to use the CLI is described in the mermaidCLI page. mermaid.flowchartConfig can be set to a JSON string with config parameters or the corresponding object.
JavaScript based diagramming and charting tool that renders Markdown-inspired text definitions to create and modify diagrams dynamically. Get Started.
Mermaid is a JavaScript-based diagramming and charting tool that uses Markdown-inspired text definitions and a renderer to create and modify complex diagrams. The main purpose of Mermaid is to help documentation catch up with development. Doc-Rot is a Catch-22 that Mermaid helps to solve.
Jan 30, 2024 · 30 January 2024 · 6 mins. Learn how to make a flowchart with Mermaid Chart, the leading text-to-diagram platform for both developers and non-developers. A flowchart is often an excellent tool to help communicate information to a wide audience with different backgrounds.
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Apr 16, 2023 · Mermaid.js lets you create flowcharts from simple markdown. This helps you create more compelling documentation and easily version diagrams. Tagged with mermaid, markdown, beginners, flowcharts.
