RICH TEXT EDITORS

The Rich-Text Editors, or formatted text editors are tools that are used through their browser in order to facilitate the formatting of text. They online services, like our mailbox.

They can be useful to assist in the formatting of messages in a forum, a blog, a contact form or to use for the back office of your website.

These publishers can add a toolbar on <TEXTAREA> elements.

For installation, integration and use of the editors listed below, please refer to the official documentation on that site.

The best known

• FCKeditor: http://www.fckeditor.net/
• TinyMCE: http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/
• WYMeditor: http://www.wymeditor.org/en/

Those which deserve the attention

Obviously, this is very subjective, and I invite you to test yourself to make your own mind and choose the editor for you.

• MarkitUp: http://markitup.jaysalvat.com/home/

Other Editors

• WikiWyg: http://www.wikiwyg.net/
• Spaw Editor: http://www.solmetra.com/en/disp.php/en_products/en_spaw/en_spaw_intro
• Xinha: http://xinha.webfactional.com/
• HtmlArea: http://www.dynarch.com/projects/htmlarea/

There are of course many other online publishers, free or paid. The goal is not to identify all here, but rather to list the best known "easy" to use (everything is relative,-p) and functional. Here are those proposed to date, all free.