Use a simple markdown editor https://github.com/Ionaru/easy-markdown-editor in django forms. This project is inspired by https://github.com/sparksuite/simplemde-markdown-editor and https://github.com/douglasmiranda/django-wysiwyg-redactor/.

Note that SimpleMDE is no longer in development, and has been forked to create EasyMDE, which is in active development as of mid-2024.

• install django-easymde

pip install django-easymde

• add 'easymde' to INSTALLED_APPS.

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    # ...
    'easymde',
    # ...
)

from django.db import models
from easymde.fields import EasyMDEField

class Entry(models.Model):
    title = models.CharField(max_length=250, verbose_name=u'Title')
    content = EasyMDEField(verbose_name=u'mardown content')

Note: The widget EasyMDEWidget can also be used in forms on existing fields.

EasyMDE options can be set in settings.py:

EASYMDE_OPTIONS = {
    'placeholder': 'Type here...',
    'status': False,
    'autosave': {
        'enabled': True
    }
}

For the autosave option, this plugin will generate uniqueId with python's uuid.uuid4 automatically.

Right now, this plugin supports EasyMDE Configurations, but only the static ones(no support for javascript configurations such as previewRender)

After EasyMDE is initialized, a EasyMDE instance can be retrieved from the DOM element:

$('.easymde-box')[0].EasyMDE