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Markdown Text Editor

A markdown editor that enhances your textarea instead of replacing it, so form submission, validation and required fields keep working.

Hybrid WYSIWYG mode: headings, bold and lists render as you type while the raw Markdown stays visible underneath, so you always know what will be saved.

Cost / License

  • Free
  • Open Source (MIT)

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Platforms

  • Self-Hosted
  • JavaScript
Built-in find and replace, opened with Ctrl+F. No browser extension and no separate search box.
Dark mode from a single data-theme attribute on any ancestor element. No configuration and no separate stylesheet.
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Right-to-left support for Arabic, Urdu and Farsi. The toolbar, text and status bar all mirror, with no CSS overrides.
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Properties

  1.  Distraction-free
  2.  Lightweight
  3.  Support for Themes

Features

  1.  No Tracking
  2.  Works Offline
  3.  Spell Checking
  4.  Full-Text Search
  5.  Live Preview
  6.  Support for MarkDown
  7.  WYSIWYG Support
  8.  Dark Mode
  9.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
  10.  No registration required
  11.  Syntax Highlighting

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What is Markdown Text Editor?

Markdown Text Editor turns a plain <textarea> into a full editing suite: a formatting toolbar, hybrid WYSIWYG mode that renders bold, italic and headings while keeping the raw Markdown underneath, live preview, find and replace, and keyboard shortcuts.

Unlike most markdown editors, it never hides the textarea. The original field stays visible and keeps its name attribute, so your form posts exactly as it always did — request.POST in Django, $request->input() in Laravel, params in Rails, req.body in Express. No sync code and no hidden inputs, required fields behave normally, and anything that reads the form directly (FormData, htmx, Turbo, Livewire, autosave) gets the real value rather than an empty string.

Unlike minimal textarea-based editors, it ships the full set: formatting toolbar, hybrid WYSIWYG, live preview, find and replace, image uploads and RTL support for Arabic, Urdu and Farsi — while the textarea stays in charge.

Dark mode comes from a single data-theme attribute. The preview is sanitised with DOMPurify and there are no inline event handlers, so it runs under a strict Content Security Policy. TypeScript definitions and a pluggable renderer are included.

Works standalone — no Frutjam, no Tailwind, no framework required. 51 KB gzipped, no dependencies, usable from npm or a CDN script tag.