What is the best rich textarea editor for jQuery?

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+21 Q:

What is the best rich textarea editor for jQuery?

Something like this one on the Stackoverflow site would be nice!

Or something non-jQuery that doesn't conflict with jQuery $() tags would be great.

+14 A:

Try TinyMCE. It's great!

you find the jQuery integration Plugin here

knight_killer 2008-10-16 08:32:14

+6 A:

Stack Overflow uses WMD.

Dominic Rodger 2008-10-16 08:33:54

There's also now the reverse engineered version at http://github.com/derobins/wmd, with some bug fixes.

Matthew Maravillas 2009-02-01 20:37:28

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For full on html (rather than WMD style b / i / a) I normally use http://www.fckeditor.net/. Customisation can be a little cumbersome, but reliable once in place.

digital delivery 2008-10-16 09:04:06

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Herb Caudill 2008-10-16 12:57:22

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For me markitup is an excellent editor. It does rich text as a markup editor and allows you to use different standards: html, wiki, UBB, etc... It also allows plugins very easily.

Jeremy B. 2008-10-16 13:08:24

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WYMeditor (What You See Is What You Mean) is a jQuery plugin.
jWysiwyg is an alternative with much less features

Michel 2008-10-16 13:18:21

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I really like Yahoo's YUI Rich Text Editor.

Shawn Simon 2008-10-16 13:21:12

Tiny MCE is the best IMHO - I have tired a ton of them and Tiny has the best over features, easy to create content templates, easy to set which CSS is shown in the editor and used to display it, very large API, great skins, ect...

Slee 2009-01-14 16:06:34

+12 A:

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned markitup:

markItUp! is a JavaScript plugin built on the jQuery library. It allows you to turn any textarea into a markup editor. Html, Textile, Wiki Syntax, Markdown, BBcode or even your own Markup system can be easily implemented.

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Chris S 2009-02-01 20:04:59

Markitup is great, but it's not really a rich editor. It just adds buttons to a normal textarea. When people say "rich editor," they generally mean WYSIWYG.

Trevor Burnham 2010-04-01 17:56:26

Jeremy B did mention it about 4 months before your answer. Guess a picture is worth a dozen votes. :)

Great Turtle 2010-06-16 15:18:02

@Great Turtle My answer is like the iPhone 4, and has the glass effect

Chris S 2010-06-21 10:55:58

+5 A:

I personaly use FCK because Tiny MCE does't handle html editing well, small changes in html produce lots of unececary html tags.

Edin 2009-02-01 20:29:25

+2 A:

here you can find 10 jquery and Non-jquery Text Editors: www.queness.com

mahdiahmadirad 2009-12-05 23:43:55

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IMHO tinyMce and ckeditors are way too bloated. I've tried a lot of different editors that would be jquery plugins and the best one to my taste is HtmlBox. It's extremely small = 14Kb minified (without icons) and unobtrusive.

I've tried all of these: 1. Avidan editor 2. Wymeditor 3. ueditor 4. RTE Jquery 5. jwysiwyg (GNU2) 6. jhtml area (Microsoft public license) 7. htmlbox (mit license) 8. TinyMCE (gnu) 9. Ckeditor (as well as FCKeditor)

andrei 2010-05-04 01:02:41

The free Visual Web Developer 2010 Express has JQuery intellisense out-of-the-box, be sure to use the full jquery file javascript/jquery-1.4.2.js instead of the minimized one:

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Edward Tanguay 2010-07-23 04:44:06

CLEditor is an open source jQuery plugin which provides a lightweight (just over 9K with icons), full featured, cross browser, extensible, WYSIWYG HTML editor that can be easily added into any web site. http://premiumsoftware.net/cleditor

Chris Landowski 2010-09-09 18:05:38

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