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# Module: mermaidAPI

## References

### <a id="default" name="default"></a> default

Renames and re-exports [mermaidAPI](mermaidAPI.md#mermaidapi)

## Variables

### <a id="mermaidapi" name="mermaidapi"></a> mermaidAPI

• `Const` **mermaidAPI**: `Readonly`<{ `defaultConfig`: `MermaidConfig` = configApi.defaultConfig; `getConfig`: () => `MermaidConfig` = configApi.getConfig; `getSiteConfig`: () => `MermaidConfig` = configApi.getSiteConfig; `globalReset`: () => `void` ; `initialize`: (`options`: `MermaidConfig`) => `Promise`<`void`> ; `parse`: (`text`: `string`, `parseError?`: `ParseErrorFunction`) => `boolean` ; `parseDirective`: (`p`: `any`, `statement`: `string`, `context`: `string`, `type`: `string`) => `void` ; `render`: (`id`: `string`, `text`: `string`, `cb`: (`svgCode`: `string`, `bindFunctions?`: (`element`: `Element`) => `void`) => `void`, `container?`: `Element`) => `Promise`<`void`> ; `reset`: () => `void` ; `setConfig`: (`conf`: `MermaidConfig`) => `MermaidConfig` = configApi.setConfig; `updateSiteConfig`: (`conf`: `MermaidConfig`) => `MermaidConfig` = configApi.updateSiteConfig }>

## mermaidAPI configuration defaults

```ts
const config = {
  theme: 'default',
  logLevel: 'fatal',
  securityLevel: 'strict',
  startOnLoad: true,
  arrowMarkerAbsolute: false,

  er: {
    diagramPadding: 20,
    layoutDirection: 'TB',
    minEntityWidth: 100,
    minEntityHeight: 75,
    entityPadding: 15,
    stroke: 'gray',
    fill: 'honeydew',
    fontSize: 12,
    useMaxWidth: true,
  },
  flowchart: {
    diagramPadding: 8,
    htmlLabels: true,
    curve: 'basis',
  },
  sequence: {
    diagramMarginX: 50,
    diagramMarginY: 10,
    actorMargin: 50,
    width: 150,
    height: 65,
    boxMargin: 10,
    boxTextMargin: 5,
    noteMargin: 10,
    messageMargin: 35,
    messageAlign: 'center',
    mirrorActors: true,
    bottomMarginAdj: 1,
    useMaxWidth: true,
    rightAngles: false,
    showSequenceNumbers: false,
  },
  gantt: {
    titleTopMargin: 25,
    barHeight: 20,
    barGap: 4,
    topPadding: 50,
    leftPadding: 75,
    gridLineStartPadding: 35,
    fontSize: 11,
    fontFamily: '"Open Sans", sans-serif',
    numberSectionStyles: 4,
    axisFormat: '%Y-%m-%d',
    topAxis: false,
  },
};
mermaid.initialize(config);
```

#### Defined in

mermaidAPI.ts:546

## Functions

### <a id="decodeentities" name="decodeentities"></a> decodeEntities

▸ **decodeEntities**(`text`): `string`

#### Parameters

| Name   | Type     |
| :----- | :------- |
| `text` | `string` |

#### Returns

`string`

#### Defined in

mermaidAPI.ts:72

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### <a id="encodeentities" name="encodeentities"></a> encodeEntities

▸ **encodeEntities**(`text`): `string`

#### Parameters

| Name   | Type     |
| :----- | :------- |
| `text` | `string` |

#### Returns

`string`

#### Defined in

mermaidAPI.ts:46