How do you store the markdown using WMD in asp.net?

Question

I have implemented the WMD control that StackOverflow uses into a project of mine, it almost works like a charm ... but ... when I save the changes to the database it is saving the HTML version and not the markdown version.

So where I have this in my text box:

**boldtext**

It is really saving this:

<b>boldtext</b>

Any ideas how to make it so the markdown version is saved?

Answer 1

Before you include wmd.js, or whatever you've named the WMD Editor Javascript locally, add one line of JS:

wmd_options = {"output": "Markdown"};

This will force the output of the editor to Markdown.