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Asked: 2026-05-26T17:05:25+00:00

I want to do something as simple as emulate the buttons as can be

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I want to do something as simple as emulate the buttons as can be seen here—albeit in jQuery and Django.

I have scoured the net and found nothing, which surprises me, but I figure it is because I am not using the right terminology.

Right now, I want to include inline tags like strong, em, and code and more tricky things like links and images (using Markdown and HTML syntax).

I figure that there are two to three different states for jQuery to act on:

  1. Some text has been selected; the text is decorated.
  2. Nothing has been selected; jQuery prompts the user to enter the text to be decorated.
  3. The script can discern between highlighted text and a highlighted URL to decide for when it needs to produce a valid link.

I have already done some jQuery stuff, so the basics of it should be manageable (any potential JS regex aside); I just have no idea to which extent jQuery supports this.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You can utilize a Rich Text editor to perform your tasks. This blog post lists some of them –

    http://www.queness.com/post/212/10-jquery-and-non-jquery-javascript-rich-text-editors

    I have used TinyMCE and it is also very good. Apart from that I have used EphoxEdit Live( http://editlive.com/what-new ) and that is pretty good(though not a jQuery plugin) for heavy usage like content editing.

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