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The Official Guide to Mermaid.js

You're reading from   The Official Guide to Mermaid.js Create complex diagrams and beautiful flowcharts easily using text and code

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801078023
Length 492 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Knut Sveidqvist Knut Sveidqvist
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Ashish Jain Ashish Jain
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Getting Started with Mermaid
2. Chapter 1: The Art of Documentation with Mermaid FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: How to Use Mermaid 4. Chapter 3: Mermaid Versions and Using the Live Editor 5. Chapter 4: Modifying Configurations with or without Directives 6. Chapter 5: Changing Themes and Making Mermaid Look Good 7. Section 2: The Most Popular Diagrams
8. Chapter 6: Using Flowcharts 9. Chapter 7: Creating Sequence Diagrams 10. Chapter 8: Rendering Class Diagrams 11. Chapter 9: Illustrating Data with Pie Charts and Understanding Requirement Diagrams 12. Section 3: Powerful Diagrams for the Advanced User
13. Chapter 10: Demonstrating Connections Using Entity Relationship Diagrams 14. Chapter 11: Representing System Behavior with State Diagrams 15. Chapter 12: Visualizing Your Project Schedule with Gantt Chart 16. Chapter 13: Presenting User Behavior with User Journey Diagrams 17. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix :Configuration Options

Interaction and styling

In this section, we will look at how to add custom styles to your flowchart. For instance, you may want to highlight one particular node in some way outside the theme. You will also learn how to make it possible for users to interact with your diagrams using mouse clicks. In the next subsection, we will start by going into details about adding interaction to diagrams.

Interaction

When flowcharts reach a certain size, they start to manifest several problems. Their original simplicity, which is one of the fundamental strengths of flowcharts, turns into complexity and the flowchart becomes hard to read, maintain, and render. One way of dealing with this issue is to break up the flowchart into smaller units, such as subprocesses or subroutines. With Mermaid, it is possible to link nodes to another URL, which allows you to link a subroutine in the top-level flowchart to another page displaying the subroutine. This can be accomplished with the click keyword...

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