rich text editor for textarea

Question

can some of you guys suggest me some free rich text editor for textarea? I like the one that stackoverflow uses.

Answer 1

I like the one that stackoverflow uses.

The one used by StackOverflow is:

WMD Editor

Also have a look at this blog post at StackOverflow:

• Reverse Engineering the WMD Editor

Answer 2

TinyMCE is what I've used successfully before. It's configurable to show as much or as little of the editor as you want.

Answer 3

I believe StackOverflow uses Markdown. You should read this article: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1196672/wmd-markdown-editor-html-to-markdown-conversion

Answer 4

I think you can choose from these two, the bests I have ever seen:

1. CKeditor

2. TinyMCE