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Markdown

:::iterate / :::pivot repeat a per-cell markdown TEMPLATE (the directive body) over consumer-resolved data.

import { MarkdownPreview } from "@elabs-ai/components-editor/markdown";
Install
npm install @elabs-ai/components-tokens @elabs-ai/components-ui @elabs-ai/components-editor

Skipping the @source line is the most common first failure: Tailwind does not scan node_modules, so every component renders unstyled. The one-time wiring

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Add the brand-ui MarkdownPreview component (from @elabs-ai/components-editor) to this project.

1. Read https://elabs-ai.com/llms.txt first: it maps every package and the rules. If you can use MCP servers, connect https://elabs-ai.com/mcp and use its search, docs and tokens tools. If not, run the same lookups in the terminal: `npx -y @elabs-ai/components-cli search "<what you need>"` and `npx -y @elabs-ai/components-cli docs <Component>`.
2. Look MarkdownPreview up before writing code: `npx -y @elabs-ai/components-cli docs MarkdownPreview` prints its real props, variants, what it pairs with and what to avoid.
3. If @elabs-ai/components-editor is not installed yet: `pnpm add @elabs-ai/components-tokens @elabs-ai/components-ui @elabs-ai/components-editor` (or `npm install @elabs-ai/components-tokens @elabs-ai/components-ui @elabs-ai/components-editor`). If this is the first brand-ui package in the project, wire it once: import `@elabs-ai/components-tokens/styles.css` plus the `themes/light.css` and `themes/dark.css` stylesheets in the CSS entry, add one Tailwind `@source` line per installed @elabs-ai package (Tailwind does not scan node_modules, so without it everything renders unstyled), and wrap the app root in `ThemeProvider` from `@elabs-ai/components-tokens`.
4. Use it here: [the screen or file, and what it should show]
5. Rules: use only @elabs-ai/components-* components and the semantic tokens — no raw colours, no raw font sizes, no arbitrary Tailwind values. Look up each component's real props with the docs tool before you use it; never guess a prop.
6. Done means: the typecheck passes, `npx -y @elabs-ai/components-cli audit src --strict` reports nothing, and you have opened the app and looked at every screen you touched in the light and the dark theme.

Examples

7 live examples

Grid

Bento

Nested :::card (+ trailing)

A nested `:::card` (with content AFTER it) inside an `:::iterate` cell. Authored with a FOUR-colon outer fence (`::::iterate … ::::`) so the inner `:::card`'s close can't terminate the outer block — the card renders as a real component and the trailing line survives. The guided builder emits this fence automatically.

Pivot (matrix)

Nested

Nested iteration: an outer per-member repeat whose template contains an inner `:::iterate` over that member's data. The outer pass leaves the inner tokens literal; the inner pass (one level deeper, depth-capped) resolves them.

Empty (no data)