EmEditor features theMarkdown Design View, which offers anear-WYSIWYG experience.

Introduced a Markdown design view that offers a near-WYSIWYG experience for editing Markdown files.

Markdown, introduced byJohn Gruber, is widely used across various platforms due to its simple text formatting capabilities for paragraphs, links, and images. Documents inMarkdown are easily readable even in basic text editors like Notepad, making it popular for blogs, StackOverflow, Wikipedia, and academic papers. Recently, it’s also been used inAI-generated responses. The enhanced Markdown support aims to improve the display ofAI prompt responses, a feature introduced in the previous version (v24.3).

AMarkdown Design View button has been added to the main toolbar, allowing you to toggle theDesign View on or off. When you select theMarkdown configuration, opening associated files will automatically enable theDesign View. This view is also applied to documents created using theAI prompt feature. You can adjust these settings on the newMarkdown page in theCustomize dialog.

Switching to theDesign View displays theMarkdown toolbar. By clicking theMarkdown Preview button, you can view a preview of theMarkdown using theWebPreview plugin.

Here are some key differences betweenMarkdown Preview andDesign View:

Given these differences, it’s advisable not to rely solely on EmEditor’sDesign View. Instead, check your work inPreview or an external web browser during editing.

You can change block styles using the dropdown menu on theMarkdown toolbar, likeParagraph,Heading 1,Heading 2, etc. You can also format text with buttons likeBold,Italic,Code, etc. These buttons behave differently depending on whether text is selected or already formatted. For example, clickingBold without selecting text will bold the entire word at the cursor. If the text at the cursor is already formatted differently, only that text will be bolded. ClickingBold with text selected toggles the bold formatting. Other buttons allow you to create/insert links, images, tables, horizontal lines, line breaks, numbered lists, bullet lists, etc. These commands are also accessible from theMarkdown submenu of the Edit menu, withCtrl+B as the shortcut forBold.