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martor [![pypi version][1]][2] [![paypal donation][3]][4]

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๐Ÿ“– Documentation: https://django-markdown-editor.readthedocs.io

Martor is a Markdown Editor plugin for Django, supported for Bootstrap, Semantic-UI & Tailwind CSS.

Features

  • Live Preview
  • Integrated with Ace Editor_
  • Supported with Bootstrap, Semantic-UI and Tailwind CSS_
  • Supported Multiple Fields fixed this issue_
  • Upload Images to imgur.com (via API) and [custom uploader][13]
  • Direct Mention users @[username] - (requires user to logged in).
  • Supports embed/iframe video from (Youtube, Vimeo, Dailymotion, Yahoo, Veoh, & Metacafe)
  • Spellchecking (only supports US English at this time)
  • Emoji :emoji_name: + Cheat sheets
  • Martor Commands Reference
  • Supports Django Admin
  • Toolbar Buttons
  • Highlight pre
  • Custom ID Attributes (Add custom IDs to any text element using {#custom-id} syntax, e.g., # Heading1 {#my-h1-id}, for easy linking and navigation.

Preview

editor

preview

Requirements

  • Django>=3.2
  • Markdown>=3.0
  • requests>=2.12.4
  • bleach

Installation

Martor is available directly from [PyPI][2]:

1. Installing the package.

$ pip install martor

2. Don't forget to add 'martor' to your 'INSTALLEDAPPS' setting (without migrations)_.

# settings.py
INSTALLED_APPS = [
    ....
    'martor',
]

3. Add url pattern to your urls.py.

# urls.py
urlpatterns = [
    ...
    path('martor/', include('martor.urls')),
]

4. Collect martor's static files in your STATIC_ROOT folder.

./manage.py collectstatic

Setting Configurations settings.py

Please register your application at https://api.imgur.com/oauth2/addclient to get IMGURCLIENTID and IMGURAPIKEY.

# Choices are: "semantic", "bootstrap", "tailwind"
MARTOR_THEME = 'bootstrap'

Global martor settings

Input: string boolean, true/false

MARTORENABLECONFIGS = { 'emoji': 'true', # to enable/disable emoji icons. 'imgur': 'true', # to enable/disable imgur/custom uploader. 'mention': 'false', # to enable/disable mention 'jquery': 'true', # to include/revoke jquery (require for admin default django) 'living': 'false', # to enable/disable live updates in preview 'spellcheck': 'false', # to enable/disable spellcheck in form textareas 'hljs': 'true', # to enable/disable hljs highlighting in preview }

To show the toolbar buttons

MARTORTOOLBARBUTTONS = [ 'bold', 'italic', 'horizontal', 'heading', 'pre-code', 'blockquote', 'unordered-list', 'ordered-list', 'link', 'image-link', 'image-upload', 'emoji', 'direct-mention', 'toggle-maximize', 'help' ]

To setup the martor editor with title label or not (default is False)

MARTORENABLELABEL = False

Disable admin style when using custom admin interface e.g django-grappelli (default is True)

MARTORENABLEADMIN_CSS = True

Imgur API Keys

MARTORIMGURCLIENT_ID = 'your-client-id' MARTORIMGURAPI_KEY = 'your-api-key'

Markdownify

MARTORMARKDOWNIFYFUNCTION = 'martor.utils.markdownify' # default MARTORMARKDOWNIFYURL = '/martor/markdownify/' # default

Delay in milliseconds to update editor preview when in living mode.

MARTORMARKDOWNIFYTIMEOUT = 0 # update the preview instantly

or:

MARTORMARKDOWNIFYTIMEOUT = 1000 # default

Markdown extensions (default)

MARTORMARKDOWNEXTENSIONS = [ 'markdown.extensions.extra', 'markdown.extensions.nl2br', 'markdown.extensions.smarty', 'markdown.extensions.fenced_code', 'markdown.extensions.sane_lists',

# Custom markdown extensions. 'martor.extensions.urlize', 'martor.extensions.del_ins', # strikethrough and ++underscores++ 'martor.extensions.mention', # to parse markdown mention 'martor.extensions.emoji', # to parse markdown emoji 'martor.extensions.mdx_video', # to parse embed/iframe video 'martor.extensions.escape_html', # to handle the XSS vulnerabilities "martor.extensions.mdxaddid", # to parse id like {#thisisid} ]

Markdown Extensions Configs

MARTORMARKDOWNEXTENSION_CONFIGS = {}

Markdown urls

MARTORUPLOADURL = '' # Completely disable the endpoint

or:

MARTORUPLOADURL = '/martor/uploader/' # default

MARTORSEARCHUSERS_URL = '' # Completely disables the endpoint

or:

MARTORSEARCHUSERS_URL = '/martor/search-user/' # default

Markdown Extensions

MARTORMARKDOWNBASEEMOJIURL = 'https://www.webfx.com/tools/emoji-cheat-sheet/graphics/emojis/' # from webfx

MARTORMARKDOWNBASEEMOJIURL = 'https://github.githubassets.com/images/icons/emoji/' # default from github

or:

MARTORMARKDOWNBASEEMOJIURL = '' # Completely disables the endpoint MARTORMARKDOWNBASEMENTIONURL = 'https://python.web.id/author/' # please change this to your domain

If you need to use your own themed "bootstrap" or "semantic ui" dependency

replace the values with the file in your static files dir

MARTORALTERNATIVEJSFILETHEME = "semantic-themed/semantic.min.js" # default None MARTORALTERNATIVECSSFILETHEME = "semantic-themed/semantic.min.css" # default None MARTORALTERNATIVEJQUERYJSFILE = "jquery/dist/jquery.min.js" # default None

URL schemes that are allowed within links

ALLOWEDURLSCHEMES = [ "file", "ftp", "ftps", "http", "https", "irc", "mailto", "sftp", "ssh", "tel", "telnet", "tftp", "vnc", "xmpp", ]

https://gist.github.com/mrmrs/7650266

ALLOWEDHTMLTAGS = [ "a", "abbr", "b", "blockquote", "br", "cite", "code", "command", "dd", "del", "dl", "dt", "em", "fieldset", "h1", "h2", "h3", "h4", "h5", "h6", "hr", "i", "iframe", "img", "input", "ins", "kbd", "label", "legend", "li", "ol", "optgroup", "option", "p", "pre", "small", "span", "strong", "sub", "sup", "table", "tbody", "td", "tfoot", "th", "thead", "tr", "u", "ul" ]

https://github.com/decal/werdlists/blob/master/html-words/html-attributes-list.txt

ALLOWEDHTMLATTRIBUTES = [ "alt", "class", "color", "colspan", "datetime", # "data", "height", "href", "id", "name", "reversed", "rowspan", "scope", "src", "style", "title", "type", "width" ]

Check this setting is not set else csrf will not be sent over ajax calls:

CSRFCOOKIEHTTPONLY = False

Usage

Model

from django.db import models
from martor.models import MartorField

class Post(models.Model): description = MartorField()

Form

from django import forms
from martor.fields import MartorFormField

class PostForm(forms.Form): description = MartorFormField()

Admin

from django.db import models
from django.contrib import admin

from martor.widgets import AdminMartorWidget

from yourapp.models import YourModel

class YourModelAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin): formfield_overrides = { models.TextField: {'widget': AdminMartorWidget}, }

admin.site.register(YourModel, YourModelAdmin)

Template Renderer

Simply safely parse markdown content as html output by loading templatetags from martor/templatetags/martortags.py.

{% load martortags %}
{{ fieldname|safemarkdown }}

example

{{ post.description|safe_markdown }}

Don't miss to include the required css & js files before use. You can take a look at this folder [martor_demo/app/templates][14] for more details. The below example is a one of the way to implement it when you choose the MARTOR_THEME = 'bootstrap':

{% extends "bootstrap/base.html" %}
{% load static %}
{% load martortags %}

{% block css %} <link href="{% static 'plugins/css/ace.min.css' %}" type="text/css" media="all" rel="stylesheet" /> <link href="{% static 'martor/css/martor.bootstrap.min.css' %}" type="text/css" media="all" rel="stylesheet" /> {% endblock %}

{% block content %} <div class="martor-preview"> <h1>Title: {{ post.title }}</h1> <p><b>Description:</b></p> <hr /> {{ post.description|safe_markdown }} </div> {% endblock %}

{% block js %} {% endblock %}

Template Editor Form

Different with Template Renderer, the Template Editor Form have more css & javascript dependencies.

{% extends "bootstrap/base.html" %}
{% load static %}

{% block css %} <link href="{% static 'plugins/css/ace.min.css' %}" type="text/css" media="all" rel="stylesheet" /> <link href="{% static 'martor/css/martor.bootstrap.min.css' %}" type="text/css" media="all" rel="stylesheet" /> {% endblock %}

{% block content %} <form class="form" method="post">{% csrf_token %} <div class="form-group"> {{ form.title }} </div> <div class="form-group"> {{ form.description }} </div> <div class="form-group"> <button class="btn btn-success"> <i class="save icon"></i> Save Post </button> </div> </form> {% endblock %}

{% block js %} {% endblock %}

Tailwind CSS Theme

When using MARTOR_THEME = 'tailwind', include the required CSS and JavaScript files:

Template Renderer (Tailwind):

{% extends "base.html" %}
{% load static %}
{% load martortags %}

{% block css %} <link href="{% static 'plugins/css/ace.min.css' %}" type="text/css" media="all" rel="stylesheet" /> <link href="{% static 'plugins/css/tailwind.min.css' %}" type="text/css" media="all" rel="stylesheet" /> <link href="{% static 'martor/css/martor.tailwind.min.css' %}" type="text/css" media="all" rel="stylesheet" /> {% endblock %}

{% block content %} <div class="container mx-auto px-4 py-8"> <div class="martor-preview bg-white rounded-lg shadow-sm p-6"> <h1 class="text-3xl font-bold text-gray-900 mb-4">{{ post.title }}</h1> <div class="prose prose-sm max-w-none"> {{ post.description|safe_markdown }} </div> </div> </div> {% endblock %}

{% block js %} {% endblock %}

Template Editor Form (Tailwind):

{% extends "base.html" %}
{% load static %}

{% block css %} <link href="{% static 'plugins/css/ace.min.css' %}" type="text/css" media="all" rel="stylesheet" /> <link href="{% static 'plugins/css/tailwind.min.css' %}" type="text/css" media="all" rel="stylesheet" /> <link href="{% static 'martor/css/martor.tailwind.min.css' %}" type="text/css" media="all" rel="stylesheet" /> {% endblock %}

{% block content %} <div class="container mx-auto px-4 py-8"> <form class="bg-white rounded-lg shadow-sm p-6" method="post">{% csrf_token %} <div class="mb-6"> <label class="block text-sm font-medium text-gray-700 mb-2">{{ form.title.label }}</label> {{ form.title }} </div> <div class="mb-6"> <label class="block text-sm font-medium text-gray-700 mb-2">{{ form.description.label }}</label> {{ form.description }} </div> <div class="flex justify-end"> <button class="bg-blue-600 hover:bg-blue-700 text-white font-medium py-2 px-4 rounded-md transition-colors"> Save Post </button> </div> </form> </div> {% endblock %}

{% block js %} {% endblock %}

Custom Uploader

If you want to save the images uploaded to your storage, Martor also provides a way to handle this. Please checkout this [WIKI][13]

Test Martor from this Repository

Assuming you are already setup with a virtual environment (virtualenv):

$ git clone https://github.com/agusmakmun/django-markdown-editor.git
$ cd django-markdown-editor/ && pip install -e .
$ cd martor_demo/
$ python manage.py makemigrations && python manage.py migrate
$ python manage.py runserver

Checkout at http://127.0.0.1:8000/simple-form/ on your browser.

Documentation

Complete documentation is available online at: https://django-markdown-editor.readthedocs.io/

Running Documentation Locally

To build and view the documentation locally:

1. Clone the repository and set up your environment:

$ git clone https://github.com/agusmakmun/django-markdown-editor.git
$ cd django-markdown-editor/
$ python -m venv venv
$ source venv/bin/activate  # On Windows: venv\Scripts\activate

2. Install documentation dependencies:

$ pip install -r docs/requirements.txt

3. Build the documentation:

$ cd docs/
$ sphinx-build -b html . _build/html

Or using the included Makefile:

$ cd docs/
$ make html

4. Open the documentation in your browser:

$ open _build/html/index.html  # On macOS

Or on Linux/Windows, navigate to docs/_build/html/index.html

Alternatively, serve the documentation with a local HTTP server:

$ make serve

Then open http://localhost:8000 in your browser

The documentation includes:

  • Installation and quickstart guides
  • Complete configuration reference
  • Usage examples for models, forms, widgets, and admin
  • API documentation
  • Troubleshooting and FAQ

Contributing to Documentation

The documentation is built with Sphinx and uses reStructuredText format. To contribute:

  • Edit the .rst files in the docs/ directory
  • Build the docs locally to test your changes
  • Submit a pull request with your improvements

Martor Commands Reference

command reference

Notes

Martor was inspired by these great projects: [django-markdownx][15], [Python Markdown][16] and [Online reStructuredText editor][17].

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[13]: https://github.com/agusmakmun/django-markdown-editor/wiki [14]: https://github.com/agusmakmun/django-markdown-editor/tree/master/martor_demo/app/templates [15]: https://github.com/adi-/django-markdownx [16]: https://github.com/waylan/Python-Markdown [17]: https://rsted.info.ucl.ac.be

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