wysiwyg Text Editor (for webpage)

Question

I am looking for a lightweight simple wysiwyg editor for a site I am working on. I have seen a couple but not really be too impressed with them. Which ones would you guys recommend?

btw I need it to work on php4 and on ie6(there went half of em).

The one here on stack overflow is really nice. I noticed it was using jQuery, which is a plus become some of the other features on my site are using jquery. Is the source for it available(without me going in a just copying it? or maybe the original editor that this one was made from?

Answer 1

TinyMCE is pretty widely used and allows some pretty decent configuration and has a good user community. Stackoverflow uses WMD (see the SO Blog post at http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/05/potential-markup-and-editing-choices/)

Answer 2

I've used FCKEditor and TinyMCE, which are free and work really well as pure WYSIWYG HTML editors.

TinyMCE seems a bit more customizable and themeable, so it may work better for you if you're pushing for simple. It's very easy to integrate in your site.

Answer 3

Try looking at the source for stackoverflow to see what they are using.

Here's some JavaScript based HTML / WYSIWYG editors:

http://www.fckeditor.net/

http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/

Answer 4

Here is an (X)HTML compliant WYSIWYG editor. It's very small at only 13kb, unless you style the controls then it's 20kb. Implemented using javascript, I would take a look if you are not satisfied yet. It's just one JS and one CSS file, and just a few images.

This script uses the Microsoft designMode DOM extension and is written in ECMAScript edition 3. It has been tested and works in Internet Explorer 5.5+ and Mozilla 1.3+ based browsers (including Firefox and Camino) but should also work in any browser that support designMode.

(X)HTML Compliant WYSIWYG Editor

Answer 5

Check out SPAW Editor. It supports IE6 + all the other majors browsers and there's a PHP4 back-end.

Answer 6

one i use is nicedit but only hasn't been updated in about 6 months and there is next to no documentation.

TinyMCE seems bloated (tinymce == 700 odd files to upload ... and everytime its run (i get about 20odd http requests) ) ... nicedit is just two files, .js and .gif

so thats my pick.