Django Markdownx is a Markdown editor built for Django. It enables raw editing with a live preview and image uploads (stored locally in MEDIA_ROOT folder! yay!) with drag&drop functionality and auto tag insertion. Also, django-markdownx supports multiple editors on one page.
Template is highly customizable, so you can easily use i.e. Bootstrap to layout editor pane and preview pane side by side (as in preview animation below).
Side note: Just to keep it simple, all UI editing controls are unwelcome – this is Markdown editor not a web MS Word imitation.
(using Bootstrap for layout and styling)
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Install
django-markdownxpackage.pip install django-markdownx
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Add
markdownxto yourINSTALLED_APPS.#settings.py INSTALLED_APPS = ( [...] 'markdownx', )
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Add url pattern to your
urls.py.#urls.py urlpatterns = [ [...] url(r'^markdownx/', include('markdownx.urls')), ]
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Collect included
markdownx.jsandmarkdownx.css(for django admin styling) to yourSTATIC_ROOTfolder.python manage.py collectstatic
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...and don't forget to include jQuery in your html file.
<head> [...] <script src="//code.jquery.com/jquery-2.1.1.min.js"></script> </head>
#models.py
from markdownx.models import MarkdownxField
class MyModel(models.Model):
myfield = MarkdownxField()...and then, include a form's required media in the template using {{ form.media }}:
<form method="POST" action="">{% csrf_token %}
{{ form }}
</form>
{{ form.media }}#forms.py
from markdownx.fields import MarkdownxFormField
class MyForm(forms.Form):
myfield = MarkdownxFormField()...and then, include a form's required media in the template using {{ form.media }}:
<form method="POST" action="">{% csrf_token %}
{{ form }}
</form>
{{ form.media }}When using included MarkdowxModel class in your models, just use MarkdownxModelAdmin as follows:
#admin.py
from django.contrib import admin
from markdownx.admin import MarkdownxModelAdmin
from .models import MyModel
admin.site.register(MyModel, MarkdownxModelAdmin)However, when you want to use markdownx with other classes – lets say TextField – than override default widget as below:
#admin.py
from django.db import models
from django.contrib import admin
from markdownx.widgets import AdminMarkdownxWidget
from .models import MyModel
class MyModelAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
formfield_overrides = {
models.TextField: {'widget': AdminMarkdownxWidget},
}
admin.site.register(MyModel, MyModelAdmin)Place settings in your settings.py to override default values:
#settings.py
MARKDOWNX_MARKDOWN_EXTENSIONS = []
MARKDOWNX_MARKDOWN_EXTENSION_CONFIGS = {}
MARKDOWNX_URLS_PATH = '/markdownx/markdownify/' # Urls path that returns compiled markdown text. Change this path to your custom app url. That could i.e. enable do some additional work with compiled markdown text.
MARKDOWNX_UPLOAD_URLS_PATH = '/markdownx/upload/' # Urls path for uploading image on text-editor. Will return markdown notation of the image. Change this path to your custom app url.
MARKDOWNX_MEDIA_PATH = 'markdownx/' # subdirectory, where images will be stored in MEDIA_ROOT folder
MARKDOWNX_UPLOAD_MAX_SIZE = 52428800 # 50MB
MARKDOWNX_UPLOAD_CONTENT_TYPES = ['image/jpeg', 'image/png']
MARKDOWNX_IMAGE_MAX_SIZE = {'size': (500, 500), 'quality': 90,}
MARKDOWNX_EDITOR_RESIZABLE = True # update editor's height to inner content height while typingNOTE: MARKDOWNX_IMAGE_MAX_SIZE dict properties:
- size – (width, height). When
0used, i.e.: (500,0), property will figure out proper height by itself - quality – default:
90– image quality, from0(full compression) to100(no compression) - crop – default:
False– ifTrueusesizeto crop final image - upscale – default:
False– if image dimensions are smaller than those insize, upscale image tosizedimensions
Change this path to your app path in urls.py. Default view that compiles markdown text:
#views.py
import markdown
from django.http import HttpResponse
from django.views.generic.edit import View
from _your_app_.settings import MARKDOWNX_MARKDOWN_EXTENSIONS, MARKDOWNX_MARKDOWN_EXTENSION_CONFIGS
class MarkdownifyView(View):
def post(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
return HttpResponse(markdown.markdown(
request.POST['content'],
extensions=MARKDOWNX_MARKDOWN_EXTENSIONS,
extension_configs=MARKDOWNX_MARKDOWN_EXTENSION_CONFIGS))Default widget's template looks like:
<div class="markdownx">
{{ markdownx_editor }}
<div class="markdownx-preview"></div>
</div>When you want to use Bootstrap 3 and side-by-side panes (as in preview image above), just place templates/markdownx/widget.html file in your project with:
<div class="markdownx row">
<div class="col-md-6">
{{ markdownx_editor }}
</div>
<div class="col-md-6">
<div class="markdownx-preview"></div>
</div>
</div>- Markdown
- Pillow
- Django
- jQuery
- Added Markdown extension configuration setting
- Fix by Eduard Sukharev: Fix accessing file length in python3
- Added custom url path setting MARKDOWNX_URLS_PATH to compile markdown with custom view (i.e. for pre/post altering markdown text)
- Setup tools fix
- Critical fix for image upload
- Package fix
- Python 3.3+ support
- Very simple test added just to test python 3 support
- Moved html logic from FormField to Widget to be able to override model objects other than included MarkdownxModel
- Fixed default value for
MARKDOWNX_EDITOR_RESIZABLE
- Warning: no backward compatibility
- Admin, Model and Form custom objects
- Django admin styles for compiled markdown
- Settings variables changed:
- MARKDOWNX_MAX_SIZE => MARKDOWNX_IMAGE_MAX_SIZE
- MARKDOWNX_MARKDOWN_KWARGS => MARKDOWNX_MARKDOWN_EXTENSIONS
- MARKDOWNX_MAX_UPLOADSIZE => MARKDOWNX_UPLOAD_MAX_SIZE
- MARKDOWNX_CONTENT_TYPES => MARKDOWNX_UPLOAD_CONTENT_TYPES
- Path fix by argaen
- Better editor height updates
- Refresh preview on image upload
- Small JS code fixes
- editor auto height
- JS event fix
- version bump
- Removed any inlcuded css
- Removed JS markdown compiler (full python support now with Markdown lib)
- Allow to paste tabs using Tab button
- package data fix
- README.md fix on PyPi
- critical setuptools fix
- change context name
editortomarkdownx_editorfor better consistency
- init
django-markdown is licensed under the open source BSD license
django-markdownx was inspired by great django-images and django-bootstrap-markdown packages.