How do you store the markdown using WMD in ASP.NET?

Question

I have implemented the WMD control that Stack Overflow uses into a project of mine, it almost works like a charm, but when I save the changes to the database it is saving the HTML version and not the Markdown version.

So where I have this in my text box:

**boldtext**

It is really saving this:

<b>boldtext</b>

How do I make it save the Markdown version?

Discharge

How are you display the text in preview and in the textarea once it has been saved to the database? Can you share code sample? – Peritoneum

I actually save both versions to the database, both the mark down and html version. I use Markdown.Net to do the encoding on the server side. – Discharge

Answer 1

Before you include wmd.js, or whatever you've named the WMD editor JavaScript code locally, add one line of JavaScript code:

wmd_options = {"output": "Markdown"};

This will force the output of the editor to Markdown.

Inconsecutive

using this, can you have it output both the markdown AND the html? – Agna

@Ryan: It will simply not autoconvert to html on postback. – Soupspoon

where 's line that I put wmd_options = {"output" : "Markdown"}; into? – Dahlberg

Answer 2

If you're using the new WMD from http://code.google.com/p/wmd-new/, open wmd.js and add this line:

wmd.wmd_env.output = 'markdown';

Excerpt:

...
wmd.ieCachedRange = null; // cached textarea selection
wmd.ieRetardedClick = false; // flag

wmd.wmd_env.output = 'markdown'; // force markdown output

// Returns true if the DOM element is visible, false if it's hidden.
// Checks if display is anything other than none.
util.isVisible = function (elem) {
...

That should do the trick.

Ashti