A simple, beautiful, and embeddable JavaScript Markdown editor. Delightful editing for beginners and experts alike. Features built-in autosaving and spell checking.

The preferred way to install this extension is through composer.

Either run

php composer.phar require --prefer-dist iisns/yii2-simplemde-markdown "*"

or add

"iisns/yii2-simplemde-markdown": "*"

to the require section of your composer.json file.

Once the extension is installed, simply use it in your code by :

View:

<?php $form = ActiveForm::begin(); ?>

<?= $form->field($model, 'content')->widget('iisns\markdown\Markdown', [
    'mdeOptions' => [
        //'autofocus' => true,
        // see https://github.com/NextStepWebs/simplemde-markdown-editor
    ]
])->label(false) ?>

<div class="form-group">
    <?= Html::submitButton('Create', ['class' => 'btn btn-primary']) ?>
</div>

<?php ActiveForm::end(); ?>

Please, check the simplemde-markdown-editor documentation for further information about its configuration options.

See https://simplemde.com/