Django MarkWhat

Table of contents

• Installation
  • Configuration
• reStructured Text
• Markdown

Note

Extracted from Django 1.4 since markup deprecation

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A collection of template filters that implement common markup languages.

provides template filters that implement the following markup languages:

• textile -- implements Textile -- requires PyTextile
• markdown -- implements Markdown -- requires Python-markdown
• restructuredtext -- implements reST (reStructured Text) -- requires doc-utils

In each case, the filter expects formatted markup as a string and returns a string representing the marked-up text. For example, the textile filter converts text that is marked-up in Textile format to HTML.

Installation

django-markwhat is available on pypi:

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-markwhat

So easily install it by pip:

pip install django-markwhat

Or by easy_install

$ easy_install django-markwhat

Another way is by cloning django-markwhat's git repo ::

git clone git://github.com/Alir3z4/django-markwhat.git

Then install it by running:

$ python setup.py install

Configuration

To activate these filters, add 'django_markwhat' to your INSTALLED_APPS setting. Once you've done that, use {% load markup %} in a template, and you'll have access to these filters.

Warning

The output of markup filters is marked "safe" and will not be escaped when rendered in a template. Always be careful to sanitize your inputs and make sure you are not leaving yourself vulnerable to cross-site scripting or other types of attacks.

reStructured Text

When using the restructuredtext markup filter you can define a RESTRUCTUREDTEXT_FILTER_SETTINGS in your django settings to override the default writer settings. See the restructuredtext writer settings for details on what these settings are.

Warning

reStructured Text has features that allow raw HTML to be included, and that allow arbitrary files to be included. These can lead to XSS vulnerabilities and leaking of private information. It is your responsibility to check the features of this library and configure appropriately to avoid this. See the Deploying Docutils Securely documentation.

Markdown

The Python Markdown library supports options named "safe_mode" and "enable_attributes". Both relate to the security of the output. To enable both options in tandem, the markdown filter supports the "safe" argument.

{ markdown_content_var|markdown:"safe" }}

Warning

Versions of the Python-Markdown library prior to 2.1 do not support the optional disabling of attributes and by default