Kuika's MD Editor element is used in areas of your application where rich text input is desired, giving users the ability to format and edit their text without using complex markup languages or editors. The MD Editor element supports the Markdown format and provides a variety of editing features such as formatting text, adding headings, creating lists, and adding links. Content added with this element can be displayed formatted in your application through the MD Viewer element. In this tutorial, you will learn how to use the MD Editor element and how to configure text editing in Markdown format.

The MD Editor element only supports web applications.

This training content consists of the following topics:

Adding the MD Editor element,
MD Editor element properties,
Authorization,
Visibility,
Editability,
Customize the interface design with Style Panel,
Actions.

Add MD Editor Element

After logging in to the Kuika platform, open the project you will work on from the “Apps” screen.

In the “UI Design” (1) module, drag and drop the MD Editor element (4) under the “Text Input” (3) category from the “Elements” (2) panel on the left edge.

If you drag the MD Editor element to an empty space on the screen, it will be inserted with the Row element. If you drag it into a Column, only the MD Editor element is added.With the MD Editor added to the screen, you can make textual edits directly in the element; you can edit your texts instantly without previewing them on the UI view mode.

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Textual formatting methods are listed below:

Add Bold Text: You can make the text bold.
Add Italic Text: You can italicize the text.
Add Strikethrough Text: You can strikethrough the text.
Insert HR: You can insert a horizontal dividing line.
Insert Title: You can format the text as a title. With the “#” sign you can create different title levels, e.g. “## Title 1”, “## Title 2”.
Add a Link: You can insert links in the text.
Insert a Quote: You can insert quotes in the text.
Insert an Image: You can insert visual content into the editor.
Code Blocks: You can add code samples and code blocks.
Footnotes: Features are provided to add footnotes and references.
Live Code: You can run the code in the Markdown document live and view the results.
Preview Code: You can preview the document and see the final version of your edits.
Fullscreen: By making the editor window fullscreen, you can get a larger workspace and perform writing and editing operations easily.

MD Editor Element Properties

Located in the Properties panel:

Value: Represents the content edited and saved in MD Editor. When users enter text in Markdown format, this content is stored as value.
Hide Toolbar: Allows you to control whether the formatting toolbar at the top of the MD Editor is visible or not.

Authorization.

You can customize user access with “Anonymous Access” and “All Roles Access” authorization options on the screens and elements of your application. While “Anonymous Access” enables access without any account information query, “All Roles Access” provides access by verifying user account information.

For element level authorization, you can manage the security and user experience of your application by selecting the relevant element and editing the “Authorization” settings from the Properties panel.

Visibility.

It allows you to adjust the visibility of screens or elements. Visibility in Elements allows you to regulate visibility based on a specific state or condition. For each element, you can make it always visible, hidden, or visible and hidden depending on a condition.

Click on the element on the screen.
Open the “Properties” panel on the right side.
Click on the “Visibility” field and make one of the following selections according to the needs of your application. Kuika offers Always Visible, Hidden, Sometimes Visible options to control the visibility of the screens in your application.

Always Visible: Ensures that the screens in your app are always visible. ‍
Hidden: Allows hiding screens in your application. ‍
Sometimes Visible: Makes screens in your application conditionally visible.

Editability

Allows you to make elements editable.

Enabled: Selecting this option makes the element editable.
Disabled: In this case, the element cannot be edited.
Sometimes Enabled: This option means that the element is sometimes editable and sometimes not, depending on certain conditions.

Customize the İnterface Design with Style Panel

By customizing your elements with the Styling Panel, you can create unique and impressive user interfaces in your web and mobile applications.

The sections defined below vary depending on the element.

Layout‍: Here you can make visual adjustments such as sizing, alignment and padding of elements. These settings also affect the layout of other elements within the element. Properties include Size, Min Size and Align; however, some elements may not support the Display property.
Text: The element's text properties can be edited here through font family, style, color, size, spacing and other options. This section supports all Text related adjustments.
Fill: You can use the Fill setting to customize the element's background with color or images.
Border: You can give your elements a more aesthetic look by adding borders and adjusting the corner radii.
Shadow: You can add a shadow effect to elements used in web applications to give a sense of depth. However, the shadow feature may not be supported as some elements are not suitable for mobile applications.

Actions.

Kuika contains system actions such as Arithmetic, Authorization, Condition, Device, Export, Geolocation, Invers, Local Storage, Multi Language, Navigation, Notification, Payment, UI Control, Process Administration, Process Automation, Trigger, Process Automation, Process Administration and String Operations.

In addition to system actions, you can also use SQL actions that you create yourself.

To add actions to elements, you can use the “+ADD ACTION” button from the Properties panel on the right side.