Nice list, thank you!

Damn Jacob, this is quite a list of RTEs! You should start a blog or something.

Hi Jacob,

FYI, WYMeditor outputs XHTML 1.0 Strict, not HTML 4.01 Strict, which is quite different

Thanks for the list. I look forward to digging into them.

As a developer of websites, who often deals with clients who want to create/edit their own content, WYSIWYG editors often cause more problems than they are worth. Don’t get me wrong, they can be very useful, especially if you already know HTML and CSS. It’s the assumption that they are as flexible and foolproof as Microsoft Word that makes me crazy.

I would be very interested in knowing what everyone else thinks.

Thanks again for the list. Useful stuff!

They all look like bloatware compared to metapad!
http://liquidninja.com/metapad/

I personally use FCKEditor with my CMS, but YUI and MarkItUp! look promising!

Wow, what a list! I’ve used several of these, and my top three are (in order):
1. NicEdit
2. FCK Editor
3. TinyMCE

Using NicEdit, I turned an admin panel’s textareas into full-featured, painless rich text editors in a matter of seconds. Ridiculous!

Great selection!

I’ve tried FCK Editor and TinyMCE on my WordPress installations. Though both offer a great selection of formatting plugins, WordPress texturize and filtering can wreak havoc on code. I wish there was a simple editor that included the ability to disable WordPress’ filtering codex per post/page. Maybe in 2.7.

Thanks for showing me some editors I haven’t seen before.

great stuff

Tiny MCE is the best for me. Nice article

I don’t understand, where is KTML?
What happened with this editor? … the one, with full integration with Dreamweaver

Wow, Great List for RTE I’ve ever seen. Currently i use ThinyMCE for now i can use more. thanks

Not all rich text editors are web-based. For example, on Windows, WordPad is a rich text editor, and on OS X, TextEdit is a rich text editor.

I think you should make that clear in the beginning; otherwise, it gives the impression that all rich text editors are web-based.

Very nice list. Useful.
Will save in delicious.

Thanks

Cool list. I was just looking for a good text editor

I’ve used tinyMCE and EditArea, both have worked great.

If you want to see the website that uses EditArea you can visit http://collabedit.com

don’t forget notepad++ my favourite

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Ha, this is a list of RTE’s that can be embedded into web pages, not standalone apps. It was a good effort, though.

FYI, the successor of RTE is called RTEF, and comes with full source code: http://rtef.info/

I have to agree w/ insic. Tiny MCE is my favorite. But, it is a bit of a pain in the ass to modify.

Perfect! That’s just what I need!

I hate Tiny MCE. But I still use it
I think I’ll give a go through the ones I didn’t know in the list to see if I find anything better.

I’ve looked through the documentation on a few of these editors and they assume a basic sense of their use which unfortuantely I lack. In the examples I’ve reviewed, these “editors” only update within their own page. I don’t understand the usefulness of this.

I would be very interested in allowing my user to update a static version of their pages by using an “dynamic version” that contains one of these editors. They have ftp ability so server updates are unnecessary. Can the scripts be modified to reach out of it’s own page on a local computer and update a div of an analogous html page? I see TinyMCE seeming to do this, but can’t put my finger on what within the pages to point to the target page.

I also use Wordpress and think their editor is fine, so I also don’t understand what’s the point, for instance, of installing TinyMCE in Wordpress.

Any help would be appreciated.

This is an awesome collection!
Thanks Jacob.

i tried before almost all of them but FCKeditor is the useful one. im usually using it on cms forms.

I use metapad. It’s more than enough.

At the risk of tooting my horn, you might also want to check out the Loki Editor, which we developed at Carleton College:

http://loki-editor.googlecode.com
http://apps.carleton.edu/opensource/loki/

It’s a standards- and semantics- focused editor that is open source, free, can be readily integrated with CMSes, etc.

I will have to check out WYMeditor, which seems like a similar project.

There are 4 worth attention: FCKEditor, TinyMCE (these two have images manager and so a different league than the others), Yahoo and apparently NicEdit. All are good-looking, which is very important. Yahoo editor is, well, Yahoo, the big boys. Nic I see for the first time, a slick little thing, could use HTML view. Lot of experience with FCKEditor, sometimes was hard to configure and had no support for Opera, lately this seems to have changed for the better.

2 words come to mind: Textile and Markdown.
I have to agree with Dean here, none of these editors (bar Markitup perhaps) can output clean and valid (X)HTML and are often more trouble than they’re worth.

I personally use TinyMCE when I need to, but these things are more effort than they’re worth! BB code (or similar) is a brilliant option imho.

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Nice list…

fckeditor is nice WYSIWYG. tray it..

i preferred use TinyMCE for all my CMS

Still not sure wich one is the best. Now using FCKeditor, but I think TinyMCE is also very good.

Pretty cool list
Very interesting to see what else is out there

Um, and for Mac?

Thanks for the great list of text editors……..these will help me in my web applications

Thank you everyone for your input and for sharing your opinions.

Excellent Information. Great! Thanks for sharing.

Very usefull! Thank you!

Nice list, thank you!

TinyMCE

Hi its really Good….! worked on each input…
Thanks

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i agree with the opinion that XHTML compliance matters. it seems like an architecture issue, where instead of depending on sending a command as a string to execCommand(), an engine should be set up to handle those requests manually. the editable area can still be activated with Elem.contentEditable = true, but instead of sending commands to the browser, just cancel them all and use your own methods.

can anyone give me some feedback on that?

here’s my RTE wish list:

1. simple and clean - how about something quick and easy that gives me (and my clients) a majority of block-level HTML control, images, links and some css? 20 buttons max, but far short of MS Word (most of the time we’re writing for blogs, forums and product listings anyway right? we’re not printing this stuff!)

2. XHTML - oriented instead of bloating the text with inline styles (which, however ugly, does seem to work reasonably well, which means a clean XHTML solution must be comparable and not trip over itself if the user does something unusual)

3. css class styling capable, with the ability to pass available styles on instantiation - i’m sure this has been offered so seldomly because most editors are not prepared to handle specific operations to block-level elements (and of course there is no standard in the browsers’ built-in methods)

4. easy to tap into with custom actions - beyond button configuration and ordering, i would like it to be easy to customize what happens when a button is clicked, especially regarding inserting images.

5. auto paste from MS Word cleanup - undesirable? maybe. essential? seems like it!

i don’t think RTE’s are more trouble than they’re worth, but i do feel that an easy, clean and effective solution (like all the selector libraries out there) has not quite hit the scene yet.

thanks for the great list!

I released a jQuery RTE/WYSIWYG plugin recently Someone wanna try to test?

http://code.google.com/p/lwrte/

I’ve always used Web Wiz Rich Text Editor: it’s free, easy to use and configure and works even for old Mac (lo)users

I found markItUp is perfect.

I’ve never had to use anything but TinyMCE in my web applications. It is easily to install and it works! Simple as that.

Exellent list… thanks…

Theres a free Silverlight RichTextBox here

punyMCE - small and very powerfull.

YUI Library Rich Text Editor & TinyMCE it’s very nice
thanks

“punyMCE - small and very powerfull.”

ZigBie, thank you for that information, its really really good and really really light.. thanks

NicEdit is the best ever.

Stupidly fast and simple, only requires 2 lines to be added to your code.

i found another good rich text editor from jquery plugin

http://jqframework.com/jQRTE

good stuff….

thanks…that is very useful for some my projects….
i’ve been search for richtext editor in another site,
but i think this is the best that ever i found. There are 20 demos of RTE…….
Very nice….

Thank you…..

Great list of rtes.. Thanks for that.

I have been circling around rtes for abt 2 months. I have used a bit of yui rte. The rest i am not sure of. Could u suggest 2 or 3 in particular which might support my following rewuirements

1. Easy to use
2. Support client side spell checking
3. Affordable
4. Easy API and good documentation

YUI rte does not support any spell checking (built-in spell checking) but it has good documentation. It also requires quite a number of files css and js files for using it
unlike some of the rtes mentioned here which say require just one js file