What is the best textarea editor for jQuery?

Question

Something like this on a Stackoverflow site would be nice!

Or something non-jQuery that does not conflict with jQuery $ () tags would be great.

Answer 1

I am surprised that no one mentioned markitup :

markItUp! This is a JavaScript plugin built into the jQuery library. It allows you to turn any text field into a markup editor. Html, Textile, Wiki Syntax, Markdown, BBcode or even your own Markup system can be easily implemented.

Answer 2

For me, markitup is a great editor. It makes rich text as a markup editor and allows you to use different standards: html, wiki, UBB, etc. It also allows plugins very easily.

Answer 3

IMHO tinyMce and ckeditors are too bloated. I tried many different editors that would be jquery plugins, and the best one for my taste is HtmlBox. It is extremely small = 14Kb, reduced (without icons) and unobtrusive.

I tried all this: 1. Avidan editor 2. Wymeditor 3. ueditor 4. RTE JQuery 5. jwysiwyg (GNU2) 6. jhtml area (Microsoft public license) 7. htmlbox (mit license) 8. TinyMCE (gnu) 9. Ckeditor (as well as FCKeditor)

Answer 4

CLEditor is an open source jQuery plugin that provides a lightweight (just over 9K with icons), full-featured, cross-browser, extensible WYSIWYG HTML editor that can be easily added to any website. http://premiumsoftware.net/cleditor

Answer 5

I personally use FCK because Tiny MCE handles html editing very well, small changes in html produce a lot of fuzzy html tags.

Answer 6

For full html (and not for WMD b / i / a style) I usually use http://www.fckeditor.net/ . Tuning can be a little cumbersome but reliable in place.

Answer 7

• WYMeditor (what you see, what it means) is a jQuery plugin.
• jWysiwyg is an alternative with much less features

Answer 8

I really like Yahoo YUI Rich Text Editor .

Answer 9

here you will find 10 jquery and Non-jquery text editors: www.queness.com

Answer 10

OMD looks good. too bad that it does not use jquery framework. TinyMce is quite large and can slow down page loading.

see this post: http://www.queness.com/post/212/10-jquery-and-non-jquery-javascript-rich-text-editors

hope this helps

-Towfiq I.

Answer 11

i personally use TinyMCE in our project, integrating easily and using.

Answer 12

ENDORSEMENT: TinyMCE is mature, actively maintained and well documented. It is easily extensible and generates decent, valid XHTML during editing. Due to these reasons, I have been using it in applications for the past three years. I tried all the other editors mentioned above, but I continued to use TinyMCE. Other editors simply don't do enough, or building up to expanding functionality is too cool (the exception is the YUI editor).

CRITICISM: TinyMCE will not interact 100% smoothly with ASP.Net ScriptManager and UpdatePanel controls (no TinyMCE script errors). The total size of all TinyMCE scripts can be more than 1 MB, but if necessary, downloadable scripts are downloaded as needed.

Answer 13

I would say that the best option for non.jQuery and $ () conflict would be dijit.Editor from the Dojo Toolkit. Take a look here

Answer 14

Markupit is better for me, and found a great list here only of jQuery-based Rich Text Editors: http://smashingwall.com/tools/jquery-rich-text-editors/

Answer 15

Tiny MCE is the best IMHO - I'm tired of them, and Tiny has the best features, it’s easy to create content templates, it’s easy to set which CSS is displayed in the editor and use it to display it, a very large API, large skins, ect ...

Answer 16

WYM Editor may be a smart solution. It generates reliable XHTML support in the XHTML format, which can help you.

Answer 17

Aloha Editor is the next in-place HTML editor. It can be customized, as well as create your own plugins.

FYI: The disadvantage is that it has ~ 1 MB js file if all functions are required. But it could be reduced by removing unwanted plugins.