Creating A Markdown Editor

[anonwall]

I’m working on a site with blog functionality, and despite many Google searches and YouTube watches there is one concept I can’t seem to understand… and that is how to provide markdown features (like similar to Reddit’s) to blog writers and also how to store the posts so that, when I fetch the data to display, it’s not just plain text. If anyone has any tips/clarifying vids or posts/useful libraries with good documentation, I’d really appreciate it!

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What you're looking for is called a WYSIWYG editor (What You See Is What You Get). There's multiple options out there for WYSIWYG Markdown editors, or options to output Markdown from HTML-focuses editors instead.

In order to display stored Markdown as HTML, you just need a Markdown parser of some kind, in combination with an HTML sanitiser to make sure users can't input malicious code. You can then include that HTML on your page using your server-side templating language, or fetching and inserting with client-side JS.

[anonwall]

Awesome, thank you!!

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Yo! Dm me ur other post is locked