A drop-in JavaScript textarea replacement for writing beautiful and understandable markdown. The WYSIWYG-esque editor allows users to modify the markdown with toolbar buttons and shortcuts. WYSIWYG editors that produce HTML are often complex and buggy. Markdown solves this problem in many ways, but is less visually clear while editing. SimpleMDE has been designed to bridge this gap for non-technical users who are less familiar with or just learning Markdown syntax.
SimpleMDE is an improvement of [lepture's Editor project](https://github.com/lepture/editor) and includes a great many number of changes. It is bundled with [CodeMirror](https://github.com/codemirror/codemirror) and [Font Awesome](http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/).
CodeMirror is the backbone of the project and parses much of the markdown syntax as it's being written. This allows us to add styles to the markdown that's being written. Additionally, a toolbar and status bar has been added to the top and bottom, respectively. Previews are rendered by [Marked](https://github.com/chjj/marked).
As mentioned earlier, SimpleMDE is an improvement of [lepture's Editor project](https://github.com/lepture/editor). So you might be wondering, what's changed? Quite a bit actually. Here's some notable changes: