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Medium.js: A tiny JS library for making content-editable beautiful

Medium.js is a tiny JavaScript library for making HTML5

Medium.js: A tiny JS library for making content-editable beautiful launched on August 12, 2013 with 16 votes, #57 of 475 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 13 years on.

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In plain words

Medium.js is a lightweight JavaScript library that enhances HTML5 contenteditable elements to create clean, semantic editing experiences. It's designed for developers building content editors and supports features like placeholders, automatic element creation, custom hotkeys, and element injection. The library maintains simple, standards-compliant HTML code and works across major browsers including Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera, and IE8 and newer.

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From the sources

Medium.js keeps HTML code within contenteditable semantic, simple, and clean. Medium.js also supports placeholders, automatic HR (or BR, or P) creation, events, hotkeys, simple & complex element injection, and more! Medium.js is html5 compliant and has been tested in Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera, & IE8+. Browser support is constantly improving! This script is inspired by Medium's beautiful content editor, something we have aspired to emulate since its inception. Simply include the dependencies, Medium.js library, CSS, and you are ready to rock. The code within Medium.js editors are very semantic and organized, giving you peace of mind with using contenteditable . All options (excluding…from jakiestfu.github.io

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