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It must a pain to make a Rich Textbox (lemmy.ml)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/programming

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It must be a pain to make a text box with the ability to add bold, italic, heading, etc. you know? All the bold text, italics, and headings would need to be saved in a database column to be retrieved later in their correct positions.

I don't know, I am doing internship learning C# ASP (started 2 months ago), and just got a "Shower Thought" while making an edit post function.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You mean like the comment fields we're using right here on lemmy?

As others have pointed out, it's usually some markdown that's embedded within the text. Lemmy is using a format that's actually called "markdown" if I'm not mistaken, or a slight variation/subset thereof.

I've gotten used to the double-star for bold and what not to the point that it annoys me when some message client or whatever doesn't support it. I share code snippets with people fairly often, and the code markdown is particularly useful to maintain its legibility.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

If you're looking for the general word, it's "markup". See also Hypertext Markup Language. But yes, Lemmy uses Markdown specifically.

And yeah, at this point Markdown is just the standard for rich text. I think it's a pretty solid subset of functionality to use everywhere.