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Asked: 2026-05-18T23:59:02+00:00

Im looking to create an input field on a web application that is similar

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Im looking to create an input field on a web application that is similar to the one we use here for posting questions, where you can put list items, make font bold/italic etc

Does anybody know here know of the code to do this? or could they point me in the right direction of code snippets/hints…ive tried using google chromes ‘inspect element’ function but cannot find the actual code behind it except that they have a class and id

The languages I can work with are JavaScript, HTML, CSS, VBScript. Ideally I wouldnt want to abstract from these languages at this time if possible.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Stack Exchange uses Markdown, a WYSIWYM (What you see is what you mean) markup language. The original implementation is in Perl, although ports to many other server-side languages are also available.

    The editor you’re looking at is a modified version of wmd, combined with showdown.js, a JavaScript implementation of the original Markdown language that allows client-side rendering of Markdown text into HTML which allows you to see the preview when writing and editing posts here.

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