Do you guys still want a dedicated Markdown Component? poll Feel free to comment below in more detail about exactly what you need (or don’t need). UPDATE Video in the comment below demoing how the Markdown Component will work :wink:

Here’s a sneak peek at the Markdown support @tpbradley has been working on… By the way, I’m demoing it in a Custom Component, so it’s not as straightforward as it will be once we have it as an officially built-in component, but hopefully you get the idea of how it will work …

I suggest that Tables should be supported. For the Markdown component to be really useful, then it would be worth supporting the Extended Syntax . If it is only going to be vanilla Markdown, then I am not sure what value it gives above and beyond using the Typography component (once updated). Doing …

Based on video, this looks useful. Used for CMS as well?

Yes, that’s pretty much exactly what I asked for last year. One thing I’d like to see added is dragging an .MD file from the Finder into that lower area and have it become the Markdown (I have a lot of Markdown files, and dragging is faster than copy and paste).

@dan This will be a game-changer for me, so I hope to see this soon, as I have just started working on a process documentation browsing facility on one of my sites that uses MD files. Awesome. Still valuable to me with only the vanilla MD support, but table support in the future would be great.

[image] Elements 1.4.6 (23911) optical_diskBuilds I’m not sure if this has always been the case, but at the moment, it’s not possible to create tables with Elements CMS. Markdown tables in my Markdown files are currently not being rendered in my CMS setup. @da…

Hi Dan, This is just what I was looking for in November… This way I do not have to rewrite the text content from my old RW sites as I convert them to Elements. ( This is great work, Thank you for your efforts )

Are you putting this in Advanced/CSS Classes, or somewhere else?

typo-component → Advanced/CSS Classes

Of the over 2000+ who purchased Elements, 101 view of this post, 14 votes for markdown Not saying this does not move Elements forward and attract new customers But how many of those users will use markdown? Just a question

Dedicated Markdown Component

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Pegasus (Pegasus) January 9, 2026, 7:46pm 15