WYSIWYG HTML editor is one of the important tools in maintaining articles on your website. Without using a WYSIWYG HTML editor editing or writing an article can be much harder.
Hopefully this article can give you a clue on which WYSIWYG HTML editor you should choose for your web-based applications.
These are the best FREE WYSIWYG HTML Editor you could consider to use
tinyMCE
The most popular one among it’s competitor, tinyMCE can be easily implemented to various CMS, most of open source CMS even include tinyMCE on their CMS.
Features:
- Easy to integrate with any CMS (only need two lines of code)
- Customizable using plugins and themes
- Customizable XHTML 1.0 output. Block invalid elements and force attributes
- Language packs
- Support Mozilla, MSIE, FireFox, Opera and Safari (experimental)
- You can easily use AJAX to save and load content!
- PHP/.NET/JSP/Coldfusion GZip compressor, Makes TinyMCE 75% smaller and a lot faster to load
License: Free (MCFileManager and MCImageManager plugin available on commercial license)
Website: http://tinymce.moxiecode.com
Demo: http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/example_full.php?example=true
FCKEditor
I think FCKEditor is tinyMCE main competitor. Same as tinyMCE, FCKEditor is also easy to use on various CMS.
Features:
- Compatible with most common-used browsers
- Outputs XHTML 1.0
- CSS support for better integration with your web site
- Paste from Word cleanup with auto detection
- Image insertion, with upload and server browsing support
- Customizable toolbar
- Support skins and plugins
- Multi-language support with automatic user language detection. Including Right to Left scripting.
- Lightweight and fast
- Automatic browser detection and customization
- Integration with ASP, ASP.NET, Java, ColdFusion, Perl, PHP, JavaScript and more.
License: Free and commercial license available.
Website: http://www.fckeditor.net
Demo: http://www.fckeditor.net/demo
OpenWYSIWYG
OpenWYSIWYG is worth a try, when I tested the demo page the page loads very quickly. OpenWYSIWYG is also bundled with every rich text editing feature you may need.
Features:
- Super duper fast
- Enhanced table creation
- Compatible with most common-used browsers
- The code was written entirely in Javascript
- Sleek user interface design
License: Free
Website: http://www.openwebware.com
Demo: http://www.openwebware.com/wysiwyg/demo.shtml
NiceEdit
NiceEdit a simple yet elegant WYSIWYG HTML editor, I called elegant because I really like it’s user interface, it’s very clean and easy on the eyes. And to my surprise, NiceEdit was developed by 21 years old web developer.
NiceEdit is still new, may be that’s why their forum still has small number of post (compared to others), and their Wiki is still under construction.
Features:
- Very lightweight
- Compatible with most common-used browsers
- Only tooks seconds to convert textarea to NiceEdit HTML editor
- Support Javascript and AJAX insertion in HTML editor
License: Free
Website: http://www.nicedit.com
Demo: http://www.nicedit.com/demos.php
Popularity: 13% [?]
Comment(s) For This Post
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May 18, 2008 - 12:00 pm
Best Free WYSIWYG HTML Editor seems to be very effective and also useful one. This HTML Editor can be used in designing the web and also in getting in contact to the customers. I personally want to get in touch with this HTML.
Feb 4, 2009 - 10:29 am
A good summary.
However, I’m still looking for a good script to clean up Microsoft Word formatting code.
The article states that FCKEditor does this, but the demo version does not.
If anyone’s got a PHP script which can do this then I’ll buy them a beer!
Sep 6, 2009 - 8:04 pm
http://phphtmledit.com/editoronpaste.php
Try this example. It works great for me.