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Asked: 2026-06-17T10:35:32+00:00

I’m managing a blog where a select few people can submit their own articles

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I’m managing a blog where a select few people can submit their own articles and entries. I want them to be able to embed video via HTML (and bold, italicize, etc text at their choosing). How do I do this while maintaining site security?

If I don’t HTML escape the actual article space, an open comment will ruin my site. Is there a way to selectively escape some combination of characters?

edit; hopefully without writing my own parser. I just want simple things like <b>, <i>, etc tags unescaped, as well as video and link embedding.

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  1. Editorial Team

    I use what SO uses. it is opensource and has parsers for many languages.

    The name is WMD and the question "Where’s the WMD editor open source project?" has some QA material outlining this editor.

    The question "running showdown.js serverside to conver Markdown to HTML (in PHP)" has some QA material outlining some Markdown libraries in PHP.

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