MarkItUp! continous preview refresh without hitting enter

Question

I'm using MarkItUp (http://markitup.jaysalvat.com/) and can't really figure out how to get it to continuously update the preview pane as each character is typed (or even when a 'space' is encountered). By default it refreshes the preview pane only when the enter key is hit.

Is there any way to customize this behavior? The documentation mentions a previewAutoRefresh key, but setting it results in the update-on-enter thing, not any faster.

Thanks!

Answer 1

Hi,

previewAutoRefresh is on by default.

The preview is refreshed at any markup insertion (or Enter key pressed). The content of the preview is sent by ajax to a server side parser to render the markup language (textile, markdown, bbcode etc). Doing this operation on every key stroke is almost impossible (slow and heavy).

The markItUp! built-in preview is just a helper. You can disable it and code your own preview, using a client side script (Showdown for example) as you would have to do with a regular textarea.

:)