Medium Editor

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Medium Editor is an open-source inline text editor that mimics Medium.com's WYSIWYG functionality using the contenteditable API. It provides a simple toolbar for rich text editing with support for image uploads and embeds from platforms like Twitter, YouTube, and Vimeo. The editor is extensible, allowing developers to add custom buttons, HTML, and features like automatic list formatting. It is designed for web applications and content creators who need straightforward text editing tools.

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Medium.com WYSIWYG editor clone. Uses contenteditable API to implement a rich text solution.

Pavel Linkesch has developed a jQuery plugin to upload images & embed content (from Twitter, Youtube, Vimeo, etc.) following Medium.com functionality. Patrick Stillhart developed a new and improved way to add buttons to our toolbar. With it you can add HTML or javascript buttons. At jillix , Ionică Bizău developed a Medium Editor extension that allows inserting custom HTML into the editor. Varun Raj developed an extention that automatically converts ( 1. Space ) to ordered list and ( * Space ) to unordered list if the corresponding base extensions are enabled. Paul Asselin has created an extension to add handsontable spreadsheets to MediumEditor. orhanveli has created an oEmbed based…from yabwe.github.io

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