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I am looking for some textarea that help me to translate text to HTML. Like what stackoverflow input area does.

For example

**bold** is translated to <span><b>bold</b></span>

I am not sure what this is called. Thanks!

Alex Yeung
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    Stack Overflow uses Markdown as a markup language; you should be able to simply look up a JavaScript Markdown implementation and then update a preview area with the HTML whenever the text area changes. – icktoofay Feb 06 '12 at 02:01

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Stackoverflow is actually using WMD editor. Please refer to https://github.com/derobins/wmd

Alex Yeung
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  • I think that http://markitup.jaysalvat.com/home/ is better than the editor of Stackoverfllow. It is easily implemented. – SaidbakR Oct 30 '13 at 21:27