Looking for a WYSIWYG web editor

Question

I am looking for a WYSIWYG editor for my intranet users. It should not show or give them a html option, instead it should have buttons for stuff like bold, italic, bullets, comments, font colour, html links, etc etc.

Which WYSIWYG editor would be best for these needs?

Answer 1

Try CKEditor but be warned: WYSIWYG is a bit overrated since what you see might not be what you want or mean, especially since you can't see everything. Example:

Hello <b>bold</b>!

If the cursor is to the left of the first "b" and you type a single character: Will it be bold or not? What if you are to the left of the "!"?

Answer 2

What about using TinyMCE editor? You also have a jQuery plugin...

Answer 3

take a look at TinyMCE http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/?

• Example: http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/examples/full.php
• Config: http://wiki.moxiecode.com/index.php/TinyMCE:Configuration

Answer 4

I'd agree tinyMCE is the best one I've used

Answer 5

What about Google Closure Library's Editor?

It's highly customizable... but not exactly the easiest to use as a standalone component though.

So what about the old and venerable but still functional HtmlArea?

Answer 6

In CKEditor ,the file(images) upload functions is only available for payed user.

Answer 7

I suggest FCKeditor/CKeditor, it is easy to use, look at the documentation and demos.

Answer 8

Or something similar to this site, which is a nice editor:

http://wmd-editor.com/

This is a WYSIWYM (What you see is what you mean) editor (apparently).

Answer 9

I always liked SPAW Editor.

Sadly it doesn't seem to have had much new development work in the last year or two, so not sure if it's still an active project, but it's still a pretty good piece of software.

Answer 10

NicEdit is also a small and good alternative.