Markitup.jaysalvat.com - Universal Markup Editor

markItUp! is a JavaScript plugin that is build on the JQuery library. Basically, markItUp! allows developers to turn any text area into a markup editor. With markItUp!, you can easily implement html, Textile, wiki Syntax, Markdown, BBcode or your own Markup system. markItUp! is easy to integrate with new or existing projects since it allows developers to turn any text area field into a quicktag editor with just 2 extra code lines. For even quicker and easier use, markItUp! allows you to define your own keyboard shortcuts. To top it off, markItOff! is completely customizable allowing you to add any markup and buttons you need with the styling you prefer.

“markItUp! is not meant to be a ‘Full-Features-Out-of-the-Box”-editor. Instead it is a very lightweight, customizable and flexible engine made to meet the developer’s needs in their CMSes, blogs, forums, or websites. markItUp! in not a WYSIWYG editor, and it never will be.”

This is a powerful and very flexible editor that will appeal to those looking for the ideal engine for developer’s CMS’s, blogs, forums and websites. While it won’t appeal to the masses, it will appeal to developers everywhere.

Will developers like the functionality of markitUp! enough to change their current methods and encourage viral growth?