I am writing a google app engine web app using python and jinja2. Is there a simple lightweight textarea markup that I can use either for jinja2 or just generally for an HTML text area. I just want line breaks to come across and italics and bold and maybe one or two other things but I don’t just want to mark is safe (and not autoescape the rest of it).
I am surprised that no one has asked a similar question and they probably have so maybe I’m just using the wrong keywords.
You could use TinyMCE to add markup features to a textarea. Visitors of your site (or administrators, if that’s where you happen to use it) can then add HTML markup in a user-friendly way.
Alternatively, you could add a Markdown parser (or a similar language) that allows users to add markup using basic symbols. Your website would parse and process the content prior to displaying it.