Flask-SimpleMDE is an extension to Flask that helps integrate SimpleMDE Markdown Editor to your Flask application.
- Installation
- Configuration
from flask import Flask, render_template from flask_simplemde import SimpleMDE app = Flask(__name__) app.config['SIMPLEMDE_JS_IIFE'] = True app.config['SIMPLEMDE_USE_CDN'] = True SimpleMDE(app) @app.route('/') def hello(): return render_template('hello.html') if __name__ == '__main__': app.run(debug=True)
- In
templates/hello.html:
<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <title>Flask-SimpleMDE example</title> {{ simplemde.css }} {{ simplemde.js }} </head> <body> <textarea> Some Markdown Text Here </textarea> {{ simplemde.load }} </body> </html>
- Profit!
Once registered, this extension provides a template variable called simplemde, it has:
a property named
cssthat will be rendered as HTML<link>tag to the SimpleMDE stylesheet either from free CDN or be served from a bundled blueprint, also calledsimplemde.{{ simplemde.css }}a property named
jsthat will be rendered as HTML<script>tag to the SimpleMDE javascript either from free CDN or be served from a bundled blueprint, also calledsimplemde.{{ simplemde.js }}a property named
loadthat will be rendered as HTML<script>tag with javascript code that loads the SimpleMDE Markdown Editor with the first<textarea>tag.{{ simplemde.load }}a method named
load_idthat when called with a string, will be rendered as HTML<script>tag with javascript code that loads the SimpleMDE Markdown Editor with the<textarea>tag which has the specifiedidattribute<textarea id="editor"></textarea> ... {{ simplemde.load_id("editor") }}
BSD New, see LICENSE for details.