Markdown support

Write naturally. Keep Markdown.

Edit rich text, import Markdown, and export it again. Review the conversion details for your content.

Details

Give writers a rich, formatting-first editing surface while your storage stays Markdown. Import Markdown into the editor, export the content back to Markdown, or convert either direction on the server — all built in, no extra library.

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Why not a plain Markdown box?

Rich editing, Markdown storage.

Writers get WYSIWYGToolbar, tables, images, and paste-from-Word — not a raw # and * textarea.
You keep MarkdowntoMarkdown() gives you clean Markdown to store or diff in version control.
Round-trips cleanlyHeadings, lists, links, bold/italic, blockquotes, code blocks, and tables survive the trip both ways.
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Production example

See RichTextEditor in RichMarkdown

A live writing app built with RichTextEditor: visual editing, inline code, fenced code blocks, and Markdown import and export.

Try local notes, research clips, Markdown downloads and Word export. RichMarkdown is free to use.

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Import Markdown into the editor

fromMarkdown() parses Markdown to HTML and loads it into the editing surface, so a document stored as Markdown opens as fully-formatted rich text.

var editor1 = new RichTextEditor("#div_editor1");

// Markdown in — converts to HTML and loads it into the editor.
editor1.fromMarkdown("# Release notes\n\n- Fixed **login**\n- Added _dark mode_");

Export the content back to Markdown

toMarkdown()serializes whatever is currently in the editor — including nested lists and tables — back to Markdown, ready to save.

// Markdown out — serialize the current content back to Markdown.
var md = editor1.toMarkdown();
// "# Release notes\n\n- Fixed **login**\n- Added _dark mode_"

Convert without changing the editor

Need the HTML for a Markdown string but do not want to replace what the user is editing? Pass { apply: false } and fromMarkdown() returns the HTML instead of loading it.

// Convert Markdown to HTML WITHOUT replacing the editor content.
var html = editor1.fromMarkdown(mdString, { apply: false });

Convert on the server, no DOM required

The package’s serverentry exposes the same Markdown conversion for Node — useful in an API route, a build step, or a static-render pipeline.

// Convert on the server — no browser, no DOM.
import { fromMarkdown, toMarkdown } from "@richscripts/richtexteditor/server";

const html = fromMarkdown("## Heading\n\nSome **content**.");
const markdown = toMarkdown(structuredDocument);

Only need to turn a Google Docs, Word or web page into a .md file once, without adding an editor to your app? RichMarkdown, a free browser tool from the same team, converts pasted rich text to clean Markdown. Nothing is uploaded and no sign-up is needed.

Structured JSON & MarkdownSee HTML, JSON, and Markdown side by side.Structured content docsThe document model behind the conversions.All featuresEverything included in the editor.

More than Markdown

  • Clean HTML too: the same content is available as publish-ready HTML and a structured JSON document, not only Markdown.
  • AI and collaboration included: AI Toolkit (bring your own key), per-node Yjs CRDT collaboration, tracked changes, and comments are part of the license.
  • Perpetual license from $129: no subscription and no per-seat AI pricing — see pricing.