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Post Editor Like Stack Overflow

i am working on a site which has dynamic NEWS page... currently when ever i post some news its plain text... i want it to be formatted for various reasons...

the thing is i want a post editor like Stackoverflow (the one we use to post our answers)....

i don't want code sample but i want the following things in it

text formatting... bold,italic
hyperlinks
images
bullets

and a preview of what the post is going to look like

i don't know any jQuery or AJAX... just HTML, PHP ,CSS, Javascript... but necessity is the motivation for learning...

any help... maybe some tutorials... what i need to learn & some sample code\example\projects...

+4 A:

The StackOverflow editor makes use of a markup called MarkDown, of which there are various implementations for many languages. In fact, the one in use here is open source, MarkDown Sharp.

Jorge Israel Peña 2010-08-27 05:21:09

i need write a code for one and put it in my website

Junaid Saeed 2010-08-27 05:30:30

yeah, I think you do

Jorge Israel Peña 2010-08-27 05:33:19

got it.........

Junaid Saeed 2010-08-27 05:46:06

There are many such editors , one simple one which will do all the tasks you want is Tiny Mce

kantu 2010-08-27 05:22:22

maybe this will be sufficient for you to understand... you saw that editor when you were writing this *** answer... how to code one just like it...

Junaid Saeed 2010-08-27 05:28:21

+1 A:

do a search here at SO for wysiwyg . also maybe take a look at wysihat

My personal favorite for this kind of thing is CKEditor

Scott Evernden 2010-08-27 05:27:39

is it anything like stackoverflow's post editor

Junaid Saeed 2010-08-27 05:35:28

Well yes it is 'like' SO's editor. mentioned elsewhere the fact that SO uses WMD editor. And if that's all you need look ther. CKEditor is certainly way more feature rich... and provides full HTML editing of fonts, tables, images, flash - quite a lot more (as does Tiny_MCE and others) .. You mentioned NEWS wwhich i know (from my own project experience) usually needs richer formatting and capability that what SO has here

Scott Evernden 2010-08-27 05:43:59

+5 A:

StackOverflow uses the WMD Editor. If you want the exact same editor as what you see on this page, WMD is the one to go for.

Rowlf 2010-08-27 05:33:21

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