Markup handling for Django using the MarkItUp! universal markup editor
Project description
A Django reusable application for end-to-end markup handling. Includes:
Easy integration of the MarkItUp! markup editor widget (by Jay Salvat) in Django projects, with server-side support for MarkItUp!’s AJAX preview. Plug in MarkItUp! via form widget or template tags.
MarkupField, a TextField that automatically renders and stores both its raw and rendered values in the database, on the assumption that disk space is cheaper than CPU cycles in a web application.
Installation
Install from PyPI with easy_install or pip:
pip install django-markitup
or get the in-development version:
pip install django-markitup==tip
To use django-markitup in your Django project:
Add 'markitup' to your INSTALLED_APPS setting.
Make the contents of the markitup/media/markitup directory available at MEDIA_URL/markitup (or MARKITUP_MEDIA_URL/markitup, see MARKITUP_MEDIA_URL). This can be done by copying the files, making a symlink, or through your webserver configuration.
- If you want to use AJAX-based preview, add
url(r'^markitup/', include('markitup.urls')) in your root URLconf.
Dependencies
django-markitup requires Django 1.1 or later. MarkItUp! is not an external dependency; it is bundled with django-markitup.
Using the MarkItUp! widget
The MarkItUp! widget lives at markitup.widgets.MarkItUpWidget, and can be used like any other Django custom widget.
To assign it to a form field:
from markitup.widgets import MarkItUpWidget
class MyForm(forms.Form):
content = forms.CharField(widget=MarkItUpWidget())
When this form is displayed on your site, you must include the form media somewhere on the page using {{ form.media }}, or the MarkItUpWidget will have no effect.
MarkItUpWidget accepts three optional keyword arguments: markitup_set and markitup_skin (see Choosing a MarkItUp! button set and skin) and auto_preview (to override the value of the MARKITUP_AUTO_PREVIEW setting).
To use the widget in the Django admin:
from markitup.widgets import AdminMarkItUpWidget
class MyModelAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
...
def formfield_for_dbfield(self, db_field, **kwargs):
if db_field.name == 'content':
kwargs['widget'] = AdminMarkItUpWidget()
return super(MyModelAdmin, self).formfield_for_dbfield(db_field, **kwargs)
You can also use the formfield_overrides attribute of the ModelAdmin, which is simpler but only allows setting the widget per field type (so it isn’t possible to use the MarkItUpWidget on one TextField in a model and not another):
from markitup.widgets import AdminMarkItUpWidget
class MyModelAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
formfield_overrides = {models.TextField: {'widget': AdminMarkItUpWidget}}
- If you use MarkupField in your model, it is rendered in the admin
with an AdminMarkItUpWidget by default.
MarkupField
You can apply the MarkItUp! editor control to any textarea using the above techniques, and handle the markup on the server side however you prefer.
For a seamless markup-handling solution, django-markitup also provides a MarkupField model field that automatically renders and stores both its raw and rendered values in the database, using the value of the MARKITUP_FILTER setting to parse the markup into HTML.
A MarkupField is easy to add to any model definition:
from django.db import models
from markitup.fields import MarkupField
class Article(models.Model):
title = models.CharField(max_length=100)
body = MarkupField()
MarkupField automatically creates an extra non-editable field _body_rendered to store the rendered markup. This field doesn’t need to be accessed directly; see below.
Accessing a MarkupField on a model
When accessing an attribute of a model that was declared as a MarkupField, a Markup object is returned. The Markup object has two attributes:
- raw:
The unrendered markup.
- rendered:
The rendered HTML version of raw (read-only).
This object also has a __unicode__ method that calls django.utils.safestring.mark_safe on rendered, allowing MarkupField attributes to appear in templates as rendered HTML without any special template tag or having to access rendered directly.
Assuming the Article model above:
>>> a = Article.objects.all()[0] >>> a.body.raw u'*fancy*' >>> a.body.rendered u'<p><em>fancy</em></p>' >>> print unicode(a.body) <p><em>fancy</em></p>
Assignment to a.body is equivalent to assignment to a.body.raw.
Editing a MarkupField in a form
When editing a MarkupField model attribute in a ModelForm (i.e. in the Django admin), you’ll generally want to edit the original markup and not the rendered HTML. Because the Markup object returns rendered HTML from its __unicode__ method, it’s necessary to use the MarkupTextarea widget from the markupfield.widgets module, which knows to return the raw markup instead.
By default, a MarkupField uses the MarkItUp! editor control in the admin (via the provided AdminMarkItUpWidget), but a plain MarkupTextarea in other forms. If you wish to use the MarkItUp! editor with this MarkupField in your own form, you’ll need to use the provided MarkItUpWidget rather than MarkupTextarea.
If you apply your own custom widget to the form field representing a MarkupField, your widget must either inherit from MarkupTextarea or its render method must convert its value argument to value.raw.
Using AJAX preview
If you’ve included markitup.urls in your root URLconf (as demonstrated above under Installation), all you need to enable server-side AJAX preview is the MARKITUP_FILTER setting.
The rendered HTML content is displayed in the Ajax preview wrapped by an HTML page generated by the markitup/preview.html template; you can override this template in your project and customize the preview output.
- Note: If you use your own custom MarkItUp! set, be sure to set the
previewParserPath option to '/markitup/preview/'.
The MARKITUP_FILTER setting
The MARKITUP_FILTER setting defines how markup is transformed into HTML on your site. This setting is only required if you are using MarkupField or MarkItUp! AJAX preview.
MARKITUP_FILTER must be a two-tuple. The first element must be a string, the Python dotted path to a markup filter function. This function should accept markup as its first argument and return HTML. It may accept other keyword arguments as well. You may parse your markup using any method you choose, as long as you can wrap it in a function that meets these criteria.
The second element must be a dictionary of keyword arguments to pass to the filter function. The dictionary may be empty.
For example, if you have python-markdown installed, you could use it like this:
MARKITUP_FILTER = ('markdown.markdown', {'safe_mode': True})
Alternatively, you could use the “textile” filter provided by Django like this:
MARKITUP_FILTER = ('django.contrib.markup.templatetags.markup.textile', {})
(The textile filter function doesn’t accept keyword arguments, so the kwargs dictionary must be empty in this case.)
django-markitup provides one sample rendering function, render_rest in the markitup.renderers module.
render_markup template filter
If you have set the MARKITUP_FILTER setting and use the MarkItUp! AJAX preview, but don’t wish to store rendered markup in the database with MarkupField (or are using third-party models that don’t use MarkupField), you may want a convenient way to render content in your templates using your MARKITUP_FILTER function. For this you can use the render_markup template filter:
{% load markitup_tags %}
{{ post.content|render_markup }}
Other settings
MARKITUP_MEDIA_URL
Some projects separate user-uploaded media at MEDIA_URL from static assets. If you keep static assets at a URL other than MEDIA_URL, just set MARKITUP_MEDIA_URL to that URL, and make sure the contents of the markitup/media/markitup directory are available at MARKITUP_MEDIA_URL/markitup/.
MARKITUP_PREVIEW_FILTER
This optional setting can be used to override the markup filter used for the Ajax preview view, if for some reason you need it to be different from the filter used for rendering markup in a MarkupField. It has the same format as MARKITUP_FILTER; by default it is set equal to MARKITUP_FILTER.
MARKITUP_AUTO_PREVIEW
If set to True, the preview window will be activated by default. Defaults to False.
JQUERY_URL
MarkItUp! requires the jQuery Javascript library. By default, django-markitup links to the most recent minor version of jQuery 1.3 available at ajax.googleapis.com (via the URL http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3/jquery.min.js). If you wish to use a different version of jQuery, or host it yourself, set the JQUERY_URL setting. For example:
JQUERY_URL = 'jquery.min.js'
This will use the jQuery available at MEDIA_URL/jquery.min.js. Note that a relative JQUERY_URL is always relative to MEDIA_URL, it does not use MARKITUP_MEDIA_URL.
CHANGES
tip (unreleased)
0.6.0 (2010.04.26)
remove previously-deprecated markitup_head template tag
wrap jQuery usage in anonymous function, to be more robust against other JS framework code on the page (including other jQuerys). Thanks Mikhael Korneev.
upgrade to MarkItUp! 1.1.7
add render_markup template filter
update to jQuery 1.4 and MarkItUp! 1.1.6
Add auto_preview option.
Ajax preview view now uses RequestContext, and additionally passes MARKITUP_MEDIA_URL into the template context. (Previously, MARKITUP_MEDIA_URL was passed as MEDIA_URL and RequestContext was not used). Backwards-incompatible; may require change to preview template.
0.5.2 (2009.11.24)
Fix setup.py so tests package is not installed.
0.5.1 (2009.11.18)
Added empty models.py file so markitup is properly registered in INSTALLED_APPS. Fixes issue with django-staticfiles tip not finding media.
0.5 (2009.11.12)
Added MarkupField from http://github.com/carljm/django-markupfield (thanks Mike Korobov)
Deprecated markitup_head template tag in favor of markitup_media.
Added MARKITUP_MEDIA_URL setting to override base of relative media URL paths.
0.3 (2009.11.04)
added template-tag method for applying MarkItUp! editor (inspired by django-wysiwyg
0.2 (2009.03.18)
initial release
TODO
add support for multiple markup choices (perhaps integration with django-markup)
add support for .save_markup method (with selection of markup type)
link to live demo?
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