Can I define a class name on paragraph using Markdown?

Question

Can I define a class name on paragraph using Markdown? If so, how?

Answer 1

If you just need a selector for Javascript purposes (like I did), you might just want to use a href attribute instead of a class or id:

Just do this:

Link

Markdown will not ignore or remove the href attribute like it does with classes and ids.

So in your Javascript or jQuery you can then do:

$('a[href$="foo"]').click(function(event) {

    ... do your thing ...

    event.preventDefault();
});

At least this works in my version of Markdown...