JQuery/JS Markdown plugin?

Question

I\'m writing a chat app, and I\'d like to add some simple functionality where users use markup to affect text formatting, like bold or italics. I\'

Answer 1

stackoverflow is using WMD editor. You can use WMD editor code. It's written by javascript.

check

http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/wmd-editor-reverse-engineered/

For WMD to HTML , you can use ShowDown javascript.

Github source (include showdown.js)

http://github.com/derobins/wmd

Showdown usages

var text = "Markdown *rocks*.";
var converter = new Attacklab.showdown.converter();
var html = converter.makeHtml(text);
alert(html);