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Is the editor used by Stackoverflow for textbox a Jquery plugin or is it a custom designed editor just for the site? Are there any alternatives to this editor. I mean a editor that has programming syntax friendly features and simple for users to use.

Flood Gravemind
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  • its WMD Markdown Editor http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/26412/what-wysiwyg-editor-is-stack-overflow-using – Ahmad Oct 22 '13 at 07:52
  • Have you looked into [are-there-any-javascript-live-syntax-highlighters](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/61655/are-there-any-javascript-live-syntax-highlighters) – Shubh Oct 22 '13 at 07:56
  • @SDG-ShubhDasgupta The question are very old and the links on the answers are comming up as broken. Only one link worked but it dosent address anything. – Flood Gravemind Oct 22 '13 at 07:57
  • @Ahmad the links are broken but googling it now. – Flood Gravemind Oct 22 '13 at 08:00
  • I can see it on google code – Ahmad Oct 22 '13 at 08:01
  • @FloodGravemind [edit-control-on-stack-overflow](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/51808/edit-control-on-stack-overflow) – Shubh Oct 22 '13 at 08:01
  • @Ahmad links on google code broken as well. – Flood Gravemind Oct 22 '13 at 08:02
  • @SDG-ShubhDasgupta All broken they are 2008 questions. – Flood Gravemind Oct 22 '13 at 08:03
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    @FloodGravemind: to answer your question, you can look into my above link(if not broken). As a suggestion, I would say go with [highlight.js](http://softwaremaniacs.org/soft/highlight/en/addons/), and text editor as [TinyMCE](http://www.tinymce.com/). So details can be found [here](http://www.wardenier.com/syntax-highlighting/) – Shubh Oct 22 '13 at 08:06

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Have a look into SyntaxHL plugin for Tinymce

From the mouth of developer:-

SyntaxHL is a plugin for the Tinymce (http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/) javascript WYSIWYG editor allowing you to insert highlighted code into the editor. The syntax highlighting is done using Syntax Highligher (http://code.google.com/p/syntaxhighlighter/) and the plugin simply produces the right syntax for this.

Lastly, what I know is a plugin syntaxhighlighter-plugin-for-tinymce-wysiwyg-editor.aspx from Nawaf's Blog, for which i don't have much idea(you can have a look though)!

Source code

EDIT:-

Was just googling around and found one question in meta.stackoverflow, which is what-wysiwyg-editor-is-stack-overflow-using, over here someone posted a link introducing-griffin-editor-a-jquery-textarea-plugin which was quiet good to read and implement.

Just have a look if it helps!

Edit 2:-

While reading, I found people mentioning WMD Editor as the text-editor for stackoverflow. Which is not longer available in wmd-editor.com.

It was previously here but moved to GitHub, over here.

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