From 654e234a4ec9eea4de4074ec5e189bd2a2b44a4e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: hanishkvc <hanishkvc@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2025 01:36:54 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] SimpleChatTCRV:Markdown:User configurable per session

User can enable or disable the simple minded bruteforce markdown
parsing from the per session settings.

Add grey shading and align text to left wrt table headings of
markdown to html converted tables.
---
 tools/server/public_simplechat/docs/changelog.md |  1 +
 tools/server/public_simplechat/readme.md         |  4 +++-
 tools/server/public_simplechat/simplechat.css    |  5 ++++-
 tools/server/public_simplechat/simplechat.js     |  3 ++-
 tools/server/public_simplechat/typemd.mjs        | 13 +++++++++++--
 5 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/server/public_simplechat/docs/changelog.md b/tools/server/public_simplechat/docs/changelog.md
index 4680eefd5c..017e975abb 100644
--- a/tools/server/public_simplechat/docs/changelog.md
+++ b/tools/server/public_simplechat/docs/changelog.md
@@ -299,6 +299,7 @@ Chat Session specific settings
 * More flexibility to user wrt ExternalAi tool call ie ai calling ai
   * the user can change the default behaviour of tools being disabled and sliding window of 1
   * program restart will reset these back to the default
+* Ui module cleanup to avoid duplicated/unneeded boiler plates, including using updated jsdoc annotations
 * A simple minded basic Markdown to Html logic
 
 
diff --git a/tools/server/public_simplechat/readme.md b/tools/server/public_simplechat/readme.md
index 9763b64f30..8f624d7191 100644
--- a/tools/server/public_simplechat/readme.md
+++ b/tools/server/public_simplechat/readme.md
@@ -126,7 +126,9 @@ A lightweight simple minded ai chat client with a web front-end that supports mu
 
 - Client side Sliding window Context control, using `iRecentUserMsgCnt`, helps limit context sent to ai model
 
-- Optional auto trimming of trailing garbage from model outputs
+- Optional
+  - simple minded markdown parsing of chat message text contents (default)
+  - auto trimming of trailing garbage from model outputs
 
 - Follows responsive design to try adapt to any screen size
 
diff --git a/tools/server/public_simplechat/simplechat.css b/tools/server/public_simplechat/simplechat.css
index 9b46a30c76..ef1237fee1 100644
--- a/tools/server/public_simplechat/simplechat.css
+++ b/tools/server/public_simplechat/simplechat.css
@@ -125,8 +125,11 @@ body {
     word-break: break-word;
     hyphens: auto;
 }
-.chat-message-content thead {
+.chat-message-content thead th {
     text-align: left;
+    background-color: lightgray;
+    /* padding-inline: 1vmin; */
+    border-radius: 0.4vmin;
 }
 .chat-message-content-live {
     overflow-wrap: break-word;
diff --git a/tools/server/public_simplechat/simplechat.js b/tools/server/public_simplechat/simplechat.js
index 72008b936a..5a16d62d1f 100644
--- a/tools/server/public_simplechat/simplechat.js
+++ b/tools/server/public_simplechat/simplechat.js
@@ -1497,7 +1497,7 @@ class MultiChatUI {
         }
         for (const [name, content] of showList) {
             if (content.length > 0) {
-                if (name == "content") {
+                if ((name == "content") && (this.simpleChats[chatId].cfg.chatProps.bMarkdown)) {
                     entry = document.createElement('div')
                     let md = new mMD.MarkDown()
                     md.process(content)
@@ -2105,6 +2105,7 @@ export class Config {
              * * only user messages following the latest system prompt is considered.
              */
             iRecentUserMsgCnt: 5,
+            bMarkdown: true,
             bCompletionFreshChatAlways: true,
             bCompletionInsertStandardRolePrefix: false,
             bTrimGarbage: true,
diff --git a/tools/server/public_simplechat/typemd.mjs b/tools/server/public_simplechat/typemd.mjs
index 4020d91e21..100ff04519 100644
--- a/tools/server/public_simplechat/typemd.mjs
+++ b/tools/server/public_simplechat/typemd.mjs
@@ -4,6 +4,15 @@
 //
 
 
+/**
+ * A simple minded Markdown to Html convertor, which tries to support
+ * basic forms of the below in a simple, stupid and some cases in a semi rigid way.
+ * * headings
+ * * fenced code blocks / pres
+ * * unordered list
+ * * tables
+ * * horizontal line
+ */
 export class MarkDown {
 
     constructor() {
@@ -32,9 +41,9 @@ export class MarkDown {
     }
 
     /**
-     * Try extract a table from markdown content,
-     * one line at a time.
+     * Try extract a table from markdown content, one line at a time.
      * This is a imperfect logic, but should give a rough semblance of a table many a times.
+     * Purposefully allows for any text beyond table row end | marker to be shown.
      * @param {string} line
      */
     process_table_line(line) {