mdeditor

Editor

A markdown editor you really want.

NOTICE: @NextStepWebs has created an improved markdown editor based on this project

Overview

Editor is not a WYSIWYG editor, it is a plain text markdown editor. Thanks for the great project codemirror, without which editor can never be created.

Basic Usage

The easiest way to use Editor is to simply load the script and stylesheet:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://lab.lepture.com/editor/editor.css" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://lab.lepture.com/editor/editor.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://lab.lepture.com/editor/marked.js"></script>

You can also use jsdelivr CDN:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="//cdn.jsdelivr.net/editor/0.1.0/editor.css">
<script src="//cdn.jsdelivr.net/editor/0.1.0/editor.js"></script>
<script src="//cdn.jsdelivr.net/editor/0.1.0/marked.js"></script>

Having done this, an editor instance can be created:

var editor = new Editor();
editor.render();

The editor will take the position of the first <textarea> element.

Get the content

To get back the edited content you use:

editor.codemirror.getValue();

Component

If you are using component, you can install it with:

$ component install lepture/editor

Seajs

If you are using seajs, you can install it with:

$ spm install lepture/editor

Development

You can build the dist files with grunt. After this repo is cloned, dig into the repo, and install everything you need:

$ npm install
$ npm install grunt-cli -g

Now you can create the dist files:

$ grunt transport

You can get everything you need in the build directory.

Configuration

The Editor Class accepts an option as the parameter. The supported options are:

• element (DOM)

  The element of the textarea. The default value is the first <textarea>.

• tools (array or false)

  If set false, the editor will have no toolbar.

• status (array or false)

  If set false, the editor will have no statusbar.

• actions (object)

• shortcuts (object)

Example:

new Editor({
  element: document.getElementById('editor'),
  toolbar: []
})

Contributing

Contribution is welcome. As a way to keep all code clean, we use Grunt to build our distributed files. Make sure you have read our Contributing Guide.

License

MIT. Copyright (c) 2013 - 2014 by Hsiaoming Yang