ChordSheetJS-Extras

A JavaScript library of extras for ChordSheetJS

Based in part on code from ChordSheetJS by Martijn Versluis.

Contents

• Installation
• How to ...?

Installation

ChordSheetJS-Extras is on npm, to install run:

npm install chordsheetjs-extras

Make sure to install ChordSheetJS; it is a peer dependency. Extras can be used without it... but we don't know why you would.

npm install chordsheetjs

Load with import:

import ChordSheetJS from 'chordsheetjs';
import ChordSheetJSExtras from 'chordsheetjs-extras';

or require():

var ChordSheetJS = require('chordsheetjs').default;
var ChordSheetJSExtras = require('chordsheetjs-extras');

How to ...?

Display a parsed sheet

HTML format

Table-based layout, extended!

const chordSheet = `
{title: Let it be}
{subtitle: ChordSheetJS example version}
{artist: John Lennon, Paul McCartney}
{key: C}
{tempo: 80}
{time: 4/4}
{Chorus}

Let it [Am]be, let it [C/G]be, let it [F]be, let it [C]be
[C]Whisper words of [G]wisdom, let it [F]be [C/E] [Dm] [C]`.substring(1);

const parser = new ChordSheetJS.ChordProParser();
const song = parser.parse(chordSheet);
const formatter = new ChordSheetJSExtras.HtmlTableExtFormatter();
const disp = formatter.format(song);

API docs

Note: all classes, methods and constants that are documented here can be considered public API and will only be subject to breaking changes between major versions.

HtmlTableExtFormatter

Formats a song into HTML. It uses TABLEs to align lyrics with chords, which makes the HTML for things like PDF conversion.

Kind: global class

htmlTableExtFormatter.format(song) ⇒ string

Formats a song into HTML.

Kind: instance method of HtmlTableExtFormatter
Returns: string - The HTML string

Param	Type	Description
song	Song	The song to be formatted