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Am I correct in assuming the post text editor was all custom built? If not, can anyone link to a solution that is as clean as that? I love the idea of just typing on the page versus typing into a special box with a hundred buttons along the top

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I didn't really custom build it; it's just a normal textarea element with the borders removed and the typography matched to exactly how it's displayed on the blog.

How do you edit? Directly into the textarea or do you toggle between markdown and preview?

ahh, cool. will have to try that on a future project, love how clean it is

That's pure speculation but I'd guess the editor simply uses a div with the contenteditable attribute set to true.

Edit : Okay, so much for speculation.

It's Markdown, not a WYSIWYG editor.

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