# Kramdown has no parser to handle the specified input format: GFM

**URL:** <https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/kramdown-has-no-parser-to-handle-the-specified-input-format-gfm/3191>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [August 14, 2019, 2:19am UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/kramdown-has-no-parser-to-handle-the-specified-input-format-gfm/3191 "2019-08-14T02:19:26Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
**Page:** 1

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**Author:** ![shibd](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.jekyllrb.com/shibd/32/1822_2.png) [@shibd](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/shibd)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2019, 2:19am UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/kramdown-has-no-parser-to-handle-the-specified-input-format-gfm/3191/1 "2019-08-14T02:19:26Z")

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## Exe

jekyll s

## Result

Configuration file: /Users/baozi/workspace/github/shibd.github.io/\_config.yml  
Source: /Users/baozi/workspace/github/shibd.github.io  
Destination: /Users/baozi/workspace/github/shibd.github.io/\_site  
Incremental build: disabled. Enable with --incremental  
Generating…  
Conversion error: Jekyll::Converters::Markdown encountered an error while converting ‘\_posts/2019-08-13-NEW-BLOG.md’:  
kramdown has no parser to handle the specified input format: GFM  
jekyll 3.8.6 | Error: kramdown has no parser to handle the specified input format: GFM

## version

macos: 10.14.4  
jekyll 3.8.6  
kramdown 2.1.0

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**Author:** ![shibd](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.jekyllrb.com/shibd/32/1822_2.png) [@shibd](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/shibd)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2019, 2:20am UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/kramdown-has-no-parser-to-handle-the-specified-input-format-gfm/3191/2 "2019-08-14T02:20:29Z")

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## \_config

```auto

# Markdown settings
# replace redcarpet to kramdown,
# although redcarpet can auto highlight code, the lack of header-id make the catalog impossible, so I switch to kramdown
# document: http://jekyllrb.com/docs/configuration/#kramdown
markdown: kramdown
highlighter: rouge
kramdown:
  input: GFM # use Github Flavored Markdown !important

```

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**Author:** ![shibd](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.jekyllrb.com/shibd/32/1822_2.png) [@shibd](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/shibd)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2019, 2:38am UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/kramdown-has-no-parser-to-handle-the-specified-input-format-gfm/3191/3 "2019-08-14T02:38:14Z")

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## done

kramdown version is high

> <https://github.com/thredded/thredded/issues/786>

1.17.0 is ok