How to get restructuredText to add a class to every html <p> tag?

django, python, restructuredtext

Solution

You don't say why you want to add a class to every paragraph, but it might be easier to take a different approach. For example, if you are trying to style the paragraphs, you can use a different CSS technique to select all the paragraphs in the output:

CSS:

div.resttext p {
    /* all the styling you want... */
}

HTML:

<div class='resttext'>
<p>Blah</p>
<p>Bloo</p>
</div>

Update: since you are trying to use hyphenator.js, I would suggest using its `selectorfunction` setting to select the elements differently:

Hyphenator.config({
    selectorfunction: function () {
        /* Use jQuery to find all the REST p tags. */
        return $('div.resttext p');
        }
    });
Hyphenator.run();

Problem

I'm using Django's markup package to transform restructuredText into html. Is there a way to customize the HTML writer to add a class attribute to each `<p>` tag? I could use the class directive for each paragraph, but I'd like to automate this process. For example, I want this restructured text: ``` hello ===== A paragraph of text. ``` To be converted to this html. ``` <h1>hello</h1> <p class="specialClass">A paragraph of text.</p> ``` The reason I want to insert classes is because I'm using the hyphenator library which works by adding hyphens to all tags with a "hyphenate" class. I could add the hyphenate class to the container tag, but then all the children would inherit the hyphenate class. I could use javascript to dynamically add the class, but I thought there might be a simple way to do it with restructuredText. Thanks for the help, Joe

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