Rich text editor?

Question

I need to create a WYSIWYG editor similar to CKEditor - http://ckeditor.com/

What would be the best way to go around doing this? Just looking for any tips or advice you might have!

Answer 1

why you want to create you own when so many editors are already exist.use most popular WYSIWYG editor TinyMCE. TinyMCE is a platform independent web based Javascript HTML WYSIWYG.

You can see demo & Source at here.

Answer 2

I need it for a commercial website, so just worried about licenses etc. as I don't want to pay anything extra. Could I embed these open-source editors into my website without having to purchase licenses?

There are commercial-use-friendly WYSIWYG editors that claim to be extensible to add whatever it is that you are missing.

Here is a recent blog post from Google about Closure Library (July 14th, 2010):

Closure Library’s editor is a sub-project within Closure. It provides a common, powerful, and extensible interface that abstracts the cross-browser inconsistencies and shortcomings of rich text editing. We use the Closure editor in Gmail, Google Sites, Google Groups, and many other Google products.

http://closuretools.blogspot.com/2010/07/introducing-closure-library-editor.html

Closure is under Apache License 2.0