Is there any good Markdown Javascript library or control? [closed]

Answer 1

After trying with several plugins to solve my own needs of offering a MarkDown seudo-WYSIWYG I ended implementing my own one:

• http://fguillen.github.com/MDMagick/

Maybe is not as powerful as all the solutions commented here but I think that none is as simple and easy to integrate and customize.

Answer 2

The question is ancient but hopefully this might help someone. I have just recently published a working version of my own Javascript markdown editor, uedit. You can find the source code here. It works on most browsers (including IE6+) and doesn't depend on any external JS libraries.

Answer 3

The question is even more ancient now but also even more relevant since much of the mentioned code is several years out of date.

However, I did find a few that still seems current:

Jquery-Markedit - This was forked from wmd-edit quite some time ago and refactored to use jQuery. Seems good at first sight.

EpicEditor - is also still maintained, has a flexible parser and, as you can see below, the author is highly responsive (see below). IT seems to have good documentation as well. Sadly not working with IE9.

MarkdownDeep is a third option that is still current. The interesting point with this one is support for Markdown Extra. Has a dependency on JQuery (actually you can also implement without JQuery). Based on the .NET version so documentation is more aligned to that than the JS version. This also works with IE9. It is very easy to use (with JQuery) & very simple. No significant development happening with this though as far as I can see.

js-markdown-extra is a fairly accurate port of the PHP library and is still under maintenance. It supports Markdown Extra of course.

Answer 4

As far as I know there really isn't any other browser-based editor for Markdown, at least none as extensive as the WMD editor.

Showdown is a Markdown converter in JS, which forms the basis for the HTML preview of WMD. They're both made by http://attacklab.net/.

And as far as I know there haven't been any big complaints about both (at least not on the Markdown mailing list). So go for it.