tail.writer

The tail.writer script is a neat, powerful, highly extend- and translatable Markup Editor, written in Vanilla JavaScript. It currently supports the [GitHub Flavored] Markdown, BBCode and Textile Markup languages.

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Support

You really like my tail.writer script and want to support me and all of my projects?
Then I would be extremely grateful for a coffee! (Thanks to all Supporters)

Features

Three beautiful designs and many actions and buttons.
WriteFlow supportive features & functions.
Support for Markdown (Marked, Showdown), Textile (textile.js) and BBCodes (tail.BBSolid).
Extensive Markup API to use custom Markup languages and actions.
Hooks, Event Listeners & Key-Bindings for your own code.
Completely Translatable and already available in multiple languages.
Many Settings to adapt and configure the design and behaviour.
Supports AMD (requireJS) and available as browserify module.
Compatible with all modern browsers (including IE 10+)
No Dependencies, just embed and use (except the Preview action)
Free/To/Use - MIT Licensed

WYSIWYG vs. Markup

The tail.writer script is not a WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get) editor, it's a Markup editor. The difference is the presentation of the written text: A WYSIWYG editor shows a bold text directly as bold text, while a Markup editor shows only the Markup syntax: **bold text**. (The shown syntax depends on the used Markup language, of course!)

However, you still have the possibility to add a Preview toolbar action to each single Markup language. The Preview View is not editable and requires an additional JavaScript parser depending on the used Markup language. We currently support the following libraries:

[GF] Markdown - marked
[GF] Markdown - showdown
Textile - textile.js
BBCode - tail.BBSolid

You can also use your own (or a not supported) parser library, of course. Check out the option previewConverter, which allows you to pass your own parser callback function !

Install & Embed

The master branch will always contain the latest Version (incl. not-released updates), which you can download directly here as .tar or as .zip archive, or just visit the Releases Page on GitHub directly. You can also be cool and using npm, Yarn or bower:

npm install tail.writer --save

yarn add tail.writer --save

bower install tail.writer --save

Using a CDN

You can also use the awesome CDN services from jsDelivr or UNPKG.

https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/tail.writer@latest/

https://unpkg.com/tail.writer/

Real-World Examples

Do you use tail.writer in one of your project? Don't wait, write us at [email protected] and get listed below too!

Bludit

The tail.writer Markup Editor is available for the awesome Flat-File Content Management System Bludit.

Thanks To

Octicons for the cute Icons
jsCompress for the Compressor
prismJS for the Syntax highlighting library
MenuSpy for the Menu Navigation

Translations

Wojciech Jodla / Polish Translation

Documentation

The Documentation has been moved to GitHubs Wiki Pages, but I will keep a table of contents list here and some basic instructions.

Extended Docs

Files

The tail.writer package contains many files and directories, which may confuse. The less folder can be ignored, unless you want to write a completely own design using the icon set or one of our designs as basic template. Basically the css and js folders (and the markups / langs directories maybe too) contains the main files, which you need to embed on your website. The content within the css folder should be self explanatory, the other ones contains these files:

js/tail.writer(.min).js - Contains the main script, WITHOUT any markup language.
js/tail.writer-<markup>(.min).js - Contains the main script, INCLUDING the named markup language.
js/tail.writer-full(.min).js - Contains the main script, INCLUDING ALL markup and interface languages.
langs/tail.writer-all.js - Contains all available interface languages.
langs/tail.writer-<lang_code>.js - Contains just the named interface language.
markups/tail.markup-all.js - Contains all available markup languages.
markups/tail.markup-<markup>.js - Contains just the named markup language.

In other words: No main action / button will be available if you just embed the js/tail.writer(.min).js file. So either embed the desired markup language (within the markups directory) too or use a direct bundle (or the full package).

Basic Instructions

It's highly recommended to load the Stylesheet within your HTML Header, while you pass the desired JavaScript files after the opened <body> tag (you can also include them before the closing </body> tag, of course). Please make sure you load the Markup and Interface languages as well as all plugins AFTER the main script. the tail.writer() function should be called within the "DOMContentLoaded" event.

You can pass up to 2 arguments to the tail.writer constructor, the first parameter is required and need to be an Element, a NodeList, a HTMLCollection, an Array with Element objects or just a single selector as String, which calls the .querySelectorAll() method on its own. The second parameter is optional and, if set, MUST be an object with your tail.writer options.

<!DOCTYPE html> <html>     <head>         <meta charset="utf-8" />          <link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="css/tail.writer-white.min.css" />     </head>     <body>         <script type="text/javascript" src="js/tail.writer-{markup}.min.js"></script>         <!-- <script type="text/javascript" src="langs/tail.writer-{lang}.js"></script> -->          <textarea></textarea>          <script type="text/javascript">             document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", function(){                 tail.writer("textarea", { /* Your Options */ });             });         </script>     </body> </html>

Default Options

Please check out GitHubs Wiki Pages to read more about each single option!

tail.writer("textarea", {     classNames: null,               // New in 0.4.0     debug: false,                   // New in 0.4.0     disabled: false,                // New in 0.4.0     doubleLineBreak: false,         // New in 0.4.0     fullscreenParent: d.body,       // New in 0.4.0     height: [200, 500],     indentTab: false,     indentSize: 4,     locale: "en",                   // New in 0.4.0     markup: null,                   // New in 0.4.0     preventBindings: false          // New in 0.4.0     previewConverter: null,         // New in 0.4.0     readonly: false,                // New in 0.4.0     resize: true,     statusbar: true,     toolbar: [],     toolbarMultiLine: true,         // New in 0.4.0     toolbarScrollable: true,        // New in 0.4.0     tooltip: "top",     width: "100%" });

GitHub-style Markdown Editor For jQuery - tail.writer