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WMD: The Wysiwym Markdown Editor

WMD is a simple, lightweight HTML editor for blog comments, forum posts, and basic content management. You can add WMD to any textarea with one line of code. Add live preview with one line more.

Wysiwym stands for What You See Is What You Mean. WMD produces clean semantic HTML, leaving presentation details like fonts and colors up to style sheets.

Thanks to John Gruber for the tip.

I added this to the comments section of this B₂evolution site in 3 minutes. It required the editing of two core files.

• _item_comment_form.inc.php
• _html_footer.inc.php

This gives you the toolbar and the instant preview.

Visit the WMD Demo page.

Update: I have deleted this tool from my blog, simply because I couldn’t be arsed precluding it from all the other textarea sections of the site. This doesn’t lessen my admiration of the project.