What about a WYSIWYG ?  Thats how wordpress handles it.

FCKEditor and TinyMCE are two popular Javascript based WYSIWYG editors.


--Dan


On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 2:21 PM, Ryan Felton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Assuming you're not using wordpress as your blogging engine:
> http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-syntax/screenshots/
> I'd say check out the library http://code.google.com/p/syntaxhighlighter/
> .
>
> I've used the white list plugin
> http://svn.techno-weenie.net/projects/plugins/white_list/  and added
> table, th, tr, and td tags to it.
>
> Ryan
>
>
> On Oct 31, 2008, at 4:07 PM, Ken Hudson wrote:
>
> Hi All,
> I'm working on a new application that will need a blog.  The basics for
> creating a blog are well documented all over the web and are pretty easy and
> straightforward.  However, most of what you find is very simplistic - blog
> entries and comments just consisting of simple text, for example.  In my
> application, I will need to allow blog posts to have at least some HTML
> markup (e.g., links, unordered lists, and in particular images).  The same
> goes for blog comments.  Does anyone have any suggestions on how to go about
> doing this?  RedCloth would appear to be one alternative but my users aren't
> going to know Textile and there's no way I can expect them to learn it.  I
> need to balance my requirements with a healthy concern for cross site
> scripting (XSS) and I'm unsure how to proceed.  I'm very curious how sites
> like http://www.rubyinside.com accomplish this.  I would greatly
> appreciate any advice!
>
> Thanks, Ken
>
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