GFM Markdown WYSIWYG Editor - Productive and Extensible

? Table of Contents

• Collect Statistics on the Use of Open Source
• Documents
• Standard and Extensible
• Features
• Examples
• Install
• Wrappers
• Usage
• Browser Support
• Pull Request Steps
• Contributing
• TOAST UI Family
• Used By
• License

Collect Statistics on the Use of Open Source

TOAST UI Editor applies Google Analytics (GA) to collect statistics on the use of open source, in order to identify how widely TOAST UI Editor is used throughout the world. It also serves as important index to determine the future course of projects. location.hostname (e.g. > “ui.toast.com") is to be collected and the sole purpose is nothing but to measure statistics on the usage. To disable GA, use the following usageStatistics options when creating editor.

const options = {
  // ...
  usageStatistics: false
}

const instance = new Editor(options);

Or, include tui-code-snippet(v1.5.0 or later) and then immediately write the options as follows:

tui.usageStatistics = false;

? Documents

• Getting Started
• Getting Started with Bower
• Writing Your Own Extension
• APIs

Standard and Extensible

CommonMark + GFM Specifications

Today CommonMark is the de-facto Markdown standard. GFM (GitHub Flavored Markdown) is another popular specification based on CommonMark - maintained by GitHub, which is the Markdown mostly used. TOAST UI Editor follows both CommonMark and GFM specifications. Write documents with ease using productive tools provided by TOAST UI Editor and you can easily open the produced document wherever the specifications are supported.

Powerful Extensions

CommonMark and GFM are great, but we often need more abstraction. The TOAST UI Editor comes with powerful Extensions in compliance with the Markdown syntax. You also get the flexibility to develop your own extensions using simple APIs.

Here are some of the extensions you can start with:

• Color Picker: ColorPicker provides an easy way to color text with a GUI tool box.
• Chart Code Block: A code block marked as a 'chart' will render charts.
• UML Code Block: A code block marked as an 'uml' will render UML diagrams.
• Table Merge: You can merge columns and rows in tables.

To learn more about Extensions check the Using Extension.

? Features

TOAST UI Editor provides Markdown mode and WYSIWYG mode.

Depending on the type of use you want like production of Markdown or maybe to just edit the Markdown. The TOAST UI Editor can be helpful for both the usage. It offers Markdown mode and WYSIWYG mode, which can be switched any point in time.

Productive Markdown Mode

• Live Preview: Edit Markdown while keeping an eye on the rendered HTML. Your edits will be applied immediately.
• Scrolling Sync: Synchronous scrolling between Markdown and Preview. You don't need to scroll through each one separately.
• Auto Indent: The cursor will always be where you want it to be.
• Syntax Highlight: You can check broken Markdown syntax immediately.

Easy WYSIWYG Mode

• Copy and Paste: Paste anything from browser, screenshot, excel, powerpoint, etc.
• Codeblock Editor: Highlight 170+ languages with full size code editor.
• Table: Hate the Markdown table? You can do everything with a mouse.

And More

• i18n: English, Dutch, Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, German, Russian, French, Ukrainian, Turkish, Finnish, Czech, Arabic, Polish, Galician, Swedish, Italian, Norwegian + language you extend.
• Viewer: Renders Markdown content with extensions

? Examples

• Editor Basic
• Viewer Basic
• UML Extensionn
• Chart Extension
• Writing Extension
• All Extensions

? Install

TOAST UI products can be used by using the package manager or downloading the source directly. However, we highly recommend using the package manager.

Via Package Manager

TOAST UI products are registered in two package managers, npm and bower.
You can conveniently install it using the commands provided by the package manager. When using npm, be sure to use it in the environment Node.js is installed.

npm

$ npm install --save tui-editor # Latest version
$ npm install --save tui-editor@<version> # Specific version

Via Contents Delivery Network (CDN)

TOAST UI products are available over the CDN powered by TOAST Cloud.

You can use the CDN as below.

<!-- Styles -->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://uicdn.toast.com/tui-editor/latest/tui-editor.css"></link>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://uicdn.toast.com/tui-editor/latest/tui-editor-contents.css"></link>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/codemirror/5.48.4/codemirror.css"></link>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/highlight.js/9.12.0/styles/github.min.css"></link>
<!-- Scripts -->
<script src="https://uicdn.toast.com/tui-editor/latest/tui-editor-Editor-full.js"></script>

If you want to use a specific version, use the tag name instead of latest in the url's path.

The CDN directory has the following structure.

tui-editor/
├─ latest/
│  ├─ tui-editor-Editor.js
│  ├─ tui-editor-Editor.min.js
│  └─ ...
├─ v1.1.0/
│  ├─ ...

Download Source Files

• Download bundle files
• Download all sources for each version

?️ Wrappers

• toast-ui.vue-editor: Vue wrapper component is powered by NHN.
• toast-ui.react-editor: React wrapper component is powered by NHN.
• ember-tui-editor: Ember wrapper component by @evocount. Thanks for their effort.

? Usage

The code below shows an example of using ES6 in node environment. If you are using bower please see Getting Started with Bower.

Create Editor

HTML

Add the container element where TOAST UI Editor will be created.

<div id="editorSection"></div>

JavaScript

TOAST UI Editor can be used by creating an instance with the constructor function. To get the constructor function, you should import the module using one of the following ways depending on your environment.

const Editor = require('tui-editor'); /* CommonJS */

import Editor from 'tui-editor'; /* ES6 */

Then import styles of TOAST UI Editor and dependencies.

import 'tui-editor/dist/tui-editor.css'; // editor's ui
import 'tui-editor/dist/tui-editor-contents.css'; // editor's content
import 'codemirror/lib/codemirror.css'; // codemirror
import 'highlight.js/styles/github.css'; // code block highlight

Finally you can create an instance with options and call various API after creating an instance.

import 'codemirror/lib/codemirror.css';
import 'tui-editor/dist/tui-editor.css';
import 'tui-editor/dist/tui-editor-contents.css';
import 'highlight.js/styles/github.css';

import Editor from 'tui-editor';

const instance = new Editor({
  el: document.querySelector('#editorSection'),
  initialEditType: 'markdown',
  previewStyle: 'vertical',
  height: '300px'
});

instance.getHtml();

If you use jQuery plugin, you can use it as follows.

$('#editorSection').tuiEditor({
  initialEditType: 'markdown',
  previewStyle: 'vertical',
  height: '300px'
});

Default Options

• height: Height in string or auto ex) 300px