How to export Org mode files into awesome HTML in 2 minutes

Tasks

Add a demo page

Example:

• http://demo.thi.ng/org-spec/
• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/thi-ng/org-spec/master/index.org

Overview

Description

Though you can easily override CSS stylesheets and add your own HTML themes, we can say (or write) that Org mode provides a basic HTML support.

Org-HMTL themes is an open source framework for providing you with a list of very nice (cross-browser) themes for all your Org documents. Use them to style your docs, and your colleagues will come up to tell you that you are a genius!

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Requirements

Org mode version 8 (or later) is required.

If such a version is not bundled with your Emacs, install one from ELPA.

Quotations

About Bigblow

“Very very nice, I enjoy it a lot.”
– Ista Zahn

“This is awesome. I love it!”
– Rainer M Krug

“This is awesome!!”
– Mehul Sanghvi

“This very nice html theme. […] I cannot use another emacs-theme than your emacs-leuven-theme, and it is going to be probably the same with your html theme!”
– Joseph Vidal-Rosset

“Thanks a lot for sharing […] the wonderful Bigblow theme. I create lot of specification for other team members to use. It has always been a trouble to share and maintain such spec. Now, I can create a much neater spec which is available for the team’s reference as a webpage.”
– Shankar R.

“I like Bigblow the best. I’ve exported most of my Org files using this theme and published them within my company’s intranet. Thanks for sharing this wonderful package!”
– Richard K.

About ReadTheOrg

“OMG. The ReadTheOrg theme for exported HTML from org mode files is eye wateringly beautiful. Thank you!”
– Rob Stewart

“It is fantastic, so beautiful. I will switch several of my pages over to this theme.”
– Carsten D.

“That is incredibly impressive. Thanks for this.”
– Noah R.

“Thank you! I enjoy your themes. The best ones I’ve ever found.”
– Kang T.

“Awesome theme. Wonderful job. You’re doing a wonderful thing — it will enable people (at least those who use Emacs and Org mode) to put together on-line reference works in a much-more usable fashion than is currently available.”
– D. C. Toedt

“Extremely useful.”
– Thomas S. Dye

Gallery

This is a list of available HTML themes for Org mode, which you can use right now! Well, I hope to have more than one in a couple of weeks…

Bigblow

Bigblow is perfect for your work: it is a clean design aimed at optimal Org mode experience in your browser. It looks just awesome!

Click on the image for a quick demo of Bigblow (2:49 min, no audio).

Keyboard shortcuts to save time and boost your productivity:

Shortcut	What it does
? or h	Access the dashboard
n	Move to the next main heading
p	Move to the previous main heading
b	Scroll up
<	Scroll to top
>	Scroll to bottom
-	Collapse all
+	Expand all
r	Go to next task in list
R	Go to previous task in list
q	Stop reviewing the list of tasks
g	Reload the page

ReadTheOrg

ReadTheOrg is a clone of the official – and great! – theme used in the Read The Docs site. It gives a beautiful and professional style to all your Org docs.

Thanks to its creator(s)!

Demo

I’ve written a demo page for the themes that provides a maximal working support of Org mode syntax.

Please see the Org mode refcard page for full examples of headings, code, admonitions, footnotes, tables and other details.

Installing a theme

Using a theme from the theme gallery for your own Org documents is very easy: you just need to clone the Org-HTML themes project, add a #+SETUPFILE: directive in the preamble to include the CSS and JavaScript files, then export your Org mode file to HTML.

You can either:

• copy the “setup file” of the chosen theme to the directory of your Org files,

  #+SETUPFILE: THEME-NAME.setup
      

  or

• use the (relative or absolute) path to the “setup file” (in your Git local repository)

  #+SETUPFILE: path/to/Git/repo/setup/THEME-NAME.setup
      

Then export your Org mode file to HTML with org-html-export-to-html or with C-c C-e h h.

Bigblow

In order to use the Bigblow style, just copy the theme-bigblow.setup file to your project and link to it this way:

#+SETUPFILE: theme-bigblow.setup

If you prefer, you can add the content of the setup file at the beginning of your Org file instead:

# -*- mode: org; -*-

#+HTML_HEAD: <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://www.pirilampo.org/styles/bigblow/css/htmlize.css"/>
#+HTML_HEAD: <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://www.pirilampo.org/styles/bigblow/css/bigblow.css"/>
#+HTML_HEAD: <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://www.pirilampo.org/styles/bigblow/css/hideshow.css"/>

#+HTML_HEAD: <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.pirilampo.org/styles/bigblow/js/jquery-1.11.0.min.js"></script>
#+HTML_HEAD: <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.pirilampo.org/styles/bigblow/js/jquery-ui-1.10.2.min.js"></script>

#+HTML_HEAD: <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.pirilampo.org/styles/bigblow/js/jquery.localscroll-min.js"></script>
#+HTML_HEAD: <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.pirilampo.org/styles/bigblow/js/jquery.scrollTo-1.4.3.1-min.js"></script>
#+HTML_HEAD: <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.pirilampo.org/styles/bigblow/js/jquery.zclip.min.js"></script>
#+HTML_HEAD: <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.pirilampo.org/styles/bigblow/js/bigblow.js"></script>
#+HTML_HEAD: <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.pirilampo.org/styles/bigblow/js/hideshow.js"></script>
#+HTML_HEAD: <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.pirilampo.org/styles/lib/js/jquery.stickytableheaders.min.js"></script>

Local version

Here a local version (using relative paths):

# -*- mode: org; -*-

#+HTML_HEAD: <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="styles/bigblow/css/htmlize.css"/>
#+HTML_HEAD: <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="styles/bigblow/css/bigblow.css"/>
#+HTML_HEAD: <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="styles/bigblow/css/hideshow.css"/>

#+HTML_HEAD: <script type="text/javascript" src="styles/bigblow/js/jquery-1.11.0.min.js"></script>
#+HTML_HEAD: <script type="text/javascript" src="styles/bigblow/js/jquery-ui-1.10.2.min.js"></script>

#+HTML_HEAD: <script type="text/javascript" src="styles/bigblow/js/jquery.localscroll-min.js"></script>
#+HTML_HEAD: <script type="text/javascript" src="styles/bigblow/js/jquery.scrollTo-1.4.3.1-min.js"></script>
#+HTML_HEAD: <script type="text/javascript" src="styles/bigblow/js/jquery.zclip.min.js"></script>
#+HTML_HEAD: <script type="text/javascript" src="styles/bigblow/js/bigblow.js"></script>
#+HTML_HEAD: <script type="text/javascript" src="styles/bigblow/js/hideshow.js"></script>
#+HTML_HEAD: <script type="text/javascript" src="styles/lib/js/jquery.stickytableheaders.min.js"></script>

ReadTheOrg

In order to use the ReadTheOrg style, just copy the theme-readtheorg.setup file to your project and link to it this way:

#+SETUPFILE: theme-readtheorg.setup

If you prefer, you can add the content of the setup file at the beginning of your Org file instead:

# -*- mode: org; -*-

#+HTML_HEAD: <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://www.pirilampo.org/styles/readtheorg/css/htmlize.css"/>
#+HTML_HEAD: <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://www.pirilampo.org/styles/readtheorg/css/readtheorg.css"/>

#+HTML_HEAD: <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.3/jquery.min.js"></script>
#+HTML_HEAD: <script src="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.4/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
#+HTML_HEAD: <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.pirilampo.org/styles/lib/js/jquery.stickytableheaders.js"></script>
#+HTML_HEAD: <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.pirilampo.org/styles/readtheorg/js/readtheorg.js"></script>

Contributing

Issues

Report issues and suggest features and improvements on the GitHub issue tracker.

Patches

I love contributions! Patches under any form are always welcome!

Donations

If you use the org-html-themes project (or any of my other projects) and feel it is making your life better and easier, you can show your appreciation and help support future development by making today a donation through PayPal. Thank you!

Regardless of the donations, org-html-themes will always be free both as in beer and as in speech.

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License

Copyright (C) 2011-2017 Fabrice Niessen.

Author: Fabrice Niessen
Keywords: org-mode html themes

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.