Textile (markup language)

Textile is a lightweight markup language originally developed by Dean Allen and billed as a "humane Web text generator". Textile converts its marked-up text input to valid, well-formed XHTML and also inserts character entity references for apostrophes, opening and closing single and double quotation marks, ellipses and em dashes.

Textile was originally implemented in PHP, but has been translated into other programming languages including Perl, Python, Ruby, ASP, Java and C#.

Textile is distributed under a BSD-style license and is included with, or available as a plugin for, several content-management systems.

Version 2.0 beta was released in 2004 as part of the Textpattern content management system.

Version 2.0 was released in 2006.

Textile syntax examples

This is not an exhaustive listing of Textile's syntax. For a list of all available options in Textile 2, see the full syntax reference.

Emphasized text:

_emphasized_ (e.g., italics)

*strongly emphasized* (e.g., boldface)

Lists:

* An item in a bulleted (unordered) list
* Another item in a bulleted list
** Second Level
** Second Level Items
*** Third level

# An item in an enumerated (ordered) list xxxxxxx
# Another item in an enumerated list yyyyyy
## Another level in an enumerated list vvvvvvvv

* This is a bullet
*# this is a numbered list
*# this is another numbered list
* This is another bullet

Tables (a | character must be at the beginning and end of every row):

|_. Header |_. Header |_. Header |
| Cell 1 | Cell 2 | Cell 3 |
| Cell 1 | Cell 2 | Cell 3 |

Code:

@code@

Headings: (you must leave a blank line after each heading)

h1(#id). An HTML first-level heading

h2. An HTML second-level heading

h3. An HTML third-level heading

h4. An HTML fourth-level heading

h5. An HTML fifth-level heading

h6. An HTML sixth-level heading

Blockquotes:

bq. This text will be enclosed in an HTML blockquote element.

Links:

"(classname)link text(title tooltip)":link_address

Images:

!imageurl!

See also

• Textpattern, a content-management system, also originally by Dean Allen, which uses Textile.

External links

• Textile Homepage, examples of the newest implementation in PHP
• hobix.com Textile Reference, an example-based Textile reference.
• Text::Textile, an implementation of Textile in Perl.
• PyTextile, an implementation of Textile in Python.
• RedCloth, an implementation of Textile in Ruby.
• vbsTextile, an implementation of Textile for Microsoft Active Server Pages
• Textile UDF, an implementation of Textile in ColdFusion.
• JTextile, an implementation of Textile in Java
• Textile4j, an implementation of Textile in Java
• Textile-j, an implementation of Textile in Java that includes components for SWT and JFace and an Eclipse editor plugin
• Xilize, a superset of Textile for generating webpages, documents, and websites with any plain-text editor (plugin for jEdit available). Opensource.
• Textile.NET, an implementation of Textile in C#/.NET
• octalforty Brushie Text, one more implementation of Textile in C#/.NET
• Texticl, an implementation of Textile in Common Lisp
• Textile Markup with MediaWiki, a way to use Textile on MediaWiki sites like Wikipedia
• Textile JS, an implementation of Textile in Javascript
• Mylyn WikiText, an implementation of Textile in Java that includes components for SWT and JFace, Ant tasks and an Eclipse editor plugin