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Django Markdownx is a Markdown editor built for Django. It enables raw editing, live preview and image uploads (stored locally in `MEDIA` folder) with drag&drop functionality and auto tag insertion.
*(using Bootstrap for layout and styling)*
Template is highly customizable, so you can easily use i.e. Bootstrap to layout editor pane and preview pane side by side. Using multiple editors on one page is supported.
*Side note: Just to keep it simple, all UI editing controls are unwelcome – this is Markdown editor not a web MS Word imitation.*
# Menu
* [Quick Start](#quick-start)
* [Usage](#usage)
* [Model](#model)
* [Form](#form)
* [Django Admin](#django-admin)
* [Customization](#customization)
* [Settings](#settings)
* [Widget's custom template](#widgets-custom-template)
* [Custom image insertion tag](#custom-image-insertion-tag)
* [JS events](#js-events)
* [Dependencies](#dependencies)
* [Changelog](#changelog)
* [License](#license)
* [Package Requests](#package-requests)
* [Notes](#notes)
# Quick Start
1. Install `django-markdownx` package.
```bash
pip install django-markdownx
```
1. Add `markdownx` to your `INSTALLED_APPS`.
```python
#settings.py
INSTALLED_APPS = (
[...]
'markdownx',
)
```
1. Add url pattern to your `urls.py`.
```python
#urls.py
urlpatterns = [
[...]
url(r'^markdownx/', include('markdownx.urls')),
]
```
1. Collect included `markdownx.js` and `markdownx.css` (for django admin styling) to your `STATIC_ROOT` folder.
```bash
python manage.py collectstatic
```
1. ...and don't forget to include jQuery in your html file.
```html
[...]
```
# Usage
## Model
```python
#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 }}`:
```html
{{ form.media }}
```
## Form
```python
#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 }}`:
```html
{{ form.media }}
```
## Django Admin
When using included `MarkdowxModel` class in your models, just use `MarkdownxModelAdmin` as follows:
```python
#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 follows:
```python
#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)
```
# Customization
## Settings
Place settings in your `settings.py` to override default values:
```python
#settings.py
# Markdownify
MARKDOWNX_MARKDOWNIFY_FUNCTION = 'markdownx.utils.markdownify' # Default function that compiles markdown using defined extensions. Using custom function can allow you to pre-process or post-process markdown text. See below for more info.
# Markdown extensions
MARKDOWNX_MARKDOWN_EXTENSIONS = [] # List of used markdown extensions. See below for more info.
MARKDOWNX_MARKDOWN_EXTENSION_CONFIGS = {} # Configuration object for used markdown extensions
# Markdown urls
MARKDOWNX_URLS_PATH = '/markdownx/markdownify/' # URL that returns compiled markdown text.
MARKDOWNX_UPLOAD_URLS_PATH = '/markdownx/upload/' # URL that accepts file uploads, returns markdown notation of the image.
# Media path
MARKDOWNX_MEDIA_PATH = 'markdownx/' # Path, where images will be stored in MEDIA_ROOT folder
# Image
MARKDOWNX_UPLOAD_MAX_SIZE = 52428800 # 50MB - maximum file size
MARKDOWNX_UPLOAD_CONTENT_TYPES = ['image/jpeg', 'image/png'] # Acceptable file content types
MARKDOWNX_IMAGE_MAX_SIZE = {'size': (500, 500), 'quality': 90,} # Different options describing final image processing: size, compression etc. See below for more info.
# Editor
MARKDOWNX_EDITOR_RESIZABLE = True # Update editor's height to inner content height while typing
```
#### MARKDOWNX_MARKDOWNIFY_FUNCTION
Default function that compiles markdown looks like:
```python
# utils.py
import markdown
from .settings import MARKDOWNX_MARKDOWN_EXTENSIONS, MARKDOWNX_MARKDOWN_EXTENSION_CONFIGS
def markdownify(content):
return markdown.markdown(content, extensions=MARKDOWNX_MARKDOWN_EXTENSIONS, extension_configs=MARKDOWNX_MARKDOWN_EXTENSION_CONFIGS)
```
#### MARKDOWNX_MARKDOWN_EXTENSIONS
```python
#settings.py
MARKDOWNX_MARKDOWN_EXTENSIONS = [
'markdown.extensions.extra',
'markdown.extensions.nl2br',
'markdown.extensions.smarty',
]
```
*Visit [https://pythonhosted.org/Markdown/extensions/index.html](https://pythonhosted.org/Markdown/extensions/index.html) to read more about markdown extensions*.
#### MARKDOWNX_IMAGE_MAX_SIZE
Dict properties:
* **size** – (width, height). When `0` used, i.e.: (500,0), property will figure out proper height by itself
* **quality** – default: `90` – image quality, from `0` (full compression) to `100` (no compression)
* **crop** – default: `False` – if `True`, use `size` to crop final image
* **upscale** – default: `False` – if image dimensions are smaller than those in `size`, upscale image to `size` dimensions
## Widget's custom template
Default widget's template looks like:
```html
```
When you want to use Bootstrap 3 and side-by-side panes (as in preview image above), just place `markdownx/widget.html` file in your project's 'TEMPLATE_DIRS' folder with:
```html
```
## Custom image insertion tag
Markdown uses `![]()` syntax to insert uploaded image file. This generates very simple html `` tag. When you want to have more control and use your own html tags just create custom `form_valid()` function in `ImageUploadView` class.
Default `ImageUploadView` class looks like:
```python
#views.py
from django.http import JsonResponse
from django.views.generic.edit import FormView
from .forms import ImageForm
class ImageUploadView(FormView):
template_name = "dummy.html"
form_class = ImageForm
success_url = '/'
def form_invalid(self, form):
response = super(ImageUploadView, self).form_invalid(form)
if self.request.is_ajax():
return JsonResponse(form.errors, status=400)
else:
return response
def form_valid(self, form):
image_path = form.save()
response = super(ImageUploadView, self).form_valid(form)
if self.request.is_ajax():
image_code = ''.format(image_path)
return JsonResponse({'image_code': image_code})
else:
return response
```
# JS events
Each markdownx jQuery object triggers two basic events:
* 'markdownx.init'
* 'markdownx.update' – also returns 'response' variable containing markdownified text
```js
$('.markdownx').on('markdownx.init', function() {
console.log("INIT");
});
$('.markdownx').on('markdownx.update', function(e, response) {
console.log("UPDATE" + response);
});
```
# Dependencies
* Markdown
* Pillow
* Django
* jQuery
# Changelog
###### v1.5
* Possibility to customize image insertion code
###### v1.4.3
* Markdown abstractable function fix
###### v1.4.2
* Maintenance release
###### v1.4.1
* Make rendering the markdown abstractable
###### v1.4
* Added JS (jQuery) events
* Custom upload url path
* Fix when subclassing MarkdownxWidget
###### v1.3
* Added Markdown extension configuration setting
###### v1.2.1
* Fix by Eduard Sukharev: Fix accessing file length in python3
###### v1.2
* Added custom url path setting MARKDOWNX_URLS_PATH to compile markdown with custom view (i.e. for pre/post altering markdown text)
###### v1.1.3
* Setup tools fix
###### v1.1.2
* Critical fix for image upload
###### v1.1.1
* Package fix
###### v1.1
* Python 3.3+ support
* Very simple test added just to test python 3 support
###### v1.0.1
* 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`
###### v1.0.0
* 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
###### v0.4.2
* Path fix by argaen
###### v0.4.1
* Better editor height updates
* Refresh preview on image upload
* Small JS code fixes
###### v0.4.0
* editor auto height
###### v0.3.1
* JS event fix
###### v0.3.0
* version bump
###### v0.2.9
* Removed any inlcuded css
* Removed JS markdown compiler (full python support now with Markdown lib)
###### v0.2.0
* Allow to paste tabs using Tab button
###### v0.1.4
* package data fix
###### v0.1.3
* README.md fix on PyPi
###### v0.1.2
* critical setuptools fix
###### v0.1.1
* change context name `editor` to `markdownx_editor` for better consistency
###### v0.1.0
* init
# License
django-markdown is licensed under the open source BSD license. Read `LICENSE` file for details.
# Package requests
It would be nice if anyone could support this project by adding missing functionality:
* tests
* JS intelligent auto-scrolling when side-by-side panes used
# Notes
**django-markdownx** was inspired by great [django-images](https://github.com/mirumee/django-images) and [django-bootstrap-markdown](http://thegoods.aj7may.com/django-bootstrap-markdown/) packages.