It must be a pain to make a text box with the ability to add bold, italic, heading, etc. you know? All the bold text, italics, and headings would need to be saved in a database column to be retrieved later in their correct positions.
I don’t know, I am doing internship learning C# ASP (started 2 months ago), and just got a “Shower Thought” while making an edit post function.
You’d save it to the database in the same field as the rest of the text. You don’t store the positions or anything like that - you’d store the text with HTML and have the front end render it as expected.
For instance, the database could have the following text:
Hello <strong>World</strong>
And the front end just renders HTML.
Alternatively, you could store Markdown syntax if you’re hesitant to allow HTML.
EDIT: as always, if you store raw HTML, don’t forget to sanitize it.
