TTW ("Through the Web") WYSIWYG Web Editors - The List
This list of WYSIWYG rich text web editors is being maintained as a general resource for developers who want to add a richer editing experience to web based applications. In order to be included, all editors must work in place in a browser window, either by replacing a textarea or by adding their own editable fragment. WYSIWYG page designers that live outside the web page are in a different category. This resource is a living document, and we always welcome comments and updates. Please let us know if you have any comments, additional information or corrections. While we list both open source and commercial editors in the tables below, we do not endorse or guarantee your results with any editor.
Note: A good deal of the material in this list came from a list originally maintained by Paul Browning which was located at http://www.bris.ac.uk/is/projects/cms/ttw/ttw.html. Paul Browning has asked if I could continue maintaining this list, as he no longer has the time, and is no longer connected to the University of Bristol. I greatly appreciate the time and effort that he put into collecting this information, and will continue to host it and update it.
Notes/Domino Users: While I hope this list is useful to everybody, there will also be some additional information specific to IBM Lotus Domino developers, including sample databases that have these editors integrated, and which therefore are available for anyone to copy and use, as well as an indication of those web editors which have been integrated with Genii Software's CoexEdit product, thus allowing clean use of the rich content from either the IBM Lotus Notes client or from one of these editors without significant loss of formatting or content.
- E-mail us with questions and information about other editors.
Browsers (assumed version): 
Firefox 1.0+, 
Internet Explorer 5.5+, 
Mozilla 1.3+, 
Netscape 7.0+, 
Opera 6.0+, 
Safari
Open Source (ND = Notes/Domino, X = XHTML, T = Customizable toolbar, A = API available, : green=yes, red=no, white=not determined yet, so e-mail us if you know)
The XHTML, Toolbar and API settings are being added as time and information permits.
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| aynHTML | GPL | Demo | | | | | | | | | Win/IE only. Load and save content through html or xml import internal and linked stylesheets. The file upload component makes use of the ADO Stream object, which limits its use to the Win32 platform. In beta, and last update was May 2003. |
| Bitflux Editor | Apache Software License | Demo | | | | | | | | | Firefox/Mozilla. Usable with XHTML & XML Documents. In production release. Version 1 released March 2003, last updated December 2004. Version 2 planned for winter of 2005. |
| bpEditor | GPL | | | | | | | | | | Windows only. In production release. Last update was August 2001. |
| CMFVisualEditor | GPL | | | | | | | | | | Part of the Plone Collective project, which includes various tools for the Plone and/or Zope Frameworks. In early beta, and last updated March 2003. |
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| ConceptRTE | | Demo | | | | | | | | | Evolution of Kevin Roth's Cross-Browser Rich Text Editor with some enhancements but without Spell Checker or HTML code view. Sub-project of ConceptCMS. |
| Cross-Browser Rich Text Editor | Public Domain | Demo | | | | | | | | | Kevin Roth's award winning Cross-Browser Rich Text Editor is mostly a demonstration project, but is an excellent starter for other browsers and is fully public domian. |
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| Easy Web Editor (EWE) | LGPL | | | | | | | | | | Windows only. Working on cross-platform version. |
| Ekit | GPL | | | | | | | | | | Open source Java HTML web editor. Cross platform - does not list browser support. More of a stand alone Java application than most of this editors. |
| Epoz | ZPL | Demo | | | | | | | | | A cross-browser-wysiwyg-editor for Zope (and Plone). Epoz allows you to edit Zope-objects with a wysiwyg-editor. No plugins are required. CSS support. |
| FCKeditor | LGPL | Demo | | | | | | | | | Very powerful and easy to integrate, and includes all the bells and whistles, such as spell checking and image upload. Only problem is the name, which stands for Frederico Caldeira Knabben Editor. |
| FreeTextBox | ? | | | | | | | | | | Windows only. ASP.NET control written in C# that seems in be quite popular and is actively developed and enhanced. Last updated in May 2005. |
| htmlArea | BSD | | | | | | | | | | Very popular and flexible editor. Development seems to have stopped, and the htmlArea.com site lists htmlArea as "discontinued". Active development is being carried on with Xinha (see below), a successor to htmlArea. |
| HTML Text Editor | LGPL | | | | | | | | | | Windows only |
| HTML Text Editor Applet | GPL | | | | | | | | | | |
| HTOpenEdit | ? | | | | | | | | | | Windows only |
| IE Editor for Zope | GPL | | | | | | | | | | Windows only but not Zope only. Extended to work with Zope Presentation Templates and CMF/Plone (CMFVisualEditor). Looks like it is in beta and not being actively developed, but website is unclear. |
| IEWedit | GPL | | | | | | | | | | Windows only. Replaced recently by RTWedit, which supports multiple browsers. |
| IEMethod | ? | | | | | | | | | | Windows only and Zope only |
| js_edit | ? | | | | | | | | | | Windows only, PHP. "This Project Has Not Released Any Files." |
| Kupu | ? | | | | | | | | | | |
| Mozile | MPL | | | | | | | | | | MozillaInlineEditor is an in-browser, context-sensitive, XHTML editor that allows a user to edit all or just specific editable sections of any XHTML page from the comfort of his own browser. |
| Mozilla Rich Text Editing API No longer uses Midas name for trademark reasons | MPL | Demo | | | | | | | | | Rich text editing control for Mozilla. This is NO LONGER CALLED MIDAS. See demo (you need Mozilla 1.3+). |
| NetWedit | GPL | | | | | | | | | | Netscape 4+ |
| OEdit | AGPL | Demo | | | | | | | | | The WYSIWYG online editor is for use with IE >5.5 on Windows clients - and Mozilla 1.3 and above. On MacOS the WYSIWYG online editor is only working in Mozilla 1.3 and above. The WYSIWYG online editor is NOT working in Opera and IE5. |
| of_wysiwyg | LGPL | | | | | | | | | | Windows only |
| Online Content Editor | Demo? | | | | | | | | | | Windows only |
| ProtoPad | ? | | | | | | | | | | Windows only. Also availible as an executable. |
| Richtext Editor | LGPL | | | | | | | | | | Windows only |
| RTWedit | LGPL | | | | | | | | | | Enhancement of IEWedit, which it supersedes as that was developed for IE only. |
| scHTML Editor | ? | | | | | | | | | | Windows only. Includes an built-in JavaScript Editor, Form Editor and MetaTag wizard. |
| Simple HTML-editor User Control for ASP.NET | Open Source 2002 | | | | | | | | | | Windows only. Limitations: Only one editor control per page. Author: Kim Bach Petersen · kim@kensho.dk. Version: 1 Build: 2" |
| skyWriter Visual Editor | Open Source | | | | | | | | | | <bobdoyle@skybuilders.com> says: "Our skyWriter for Internet Explorer is just the Dynamic HTML Control from Microsoft. Our skyWriter for Mozilla may be the first full HTML visual editor for Mozilla (since Bitflux and Xopus are XML editors). The important thing about both skyBuilders skyWriters is that they are open source and license free. No per-seat or per-server charges like the leading tools. Of course they aren't as sophisticated as Ektron at the moment, but we hope to add more features." |
| SPAW Editor | GPL + flexible licensing | Demo | | | | | | | | | Windows only. CSS support. Server: PHP4 on any compatible OS (PHP edition), .NET Framework 1.0 on any ASP .NET compatible OS (ASP .NET edition). In production release. Last update was April 2005. |
| Text Editor | ? | | | | | | | | | | Requires FlashMX |
| TinyMCE | LGPL | Demo | | | | | | | | | Platform independent Javascript HTML WYSIWYG editor control released as Open Source under LGPL by Moxiecode Systems AB. It has the ability to convert HTML TEXTAREA fields or other HTML elements to editor instances. TinyMCE is very easy to integrate into other CMS systems |
| tGedit | Open Source, but $100 for "Pro" version | | | | | | | | | | Windows only. tGedit is a WYSIWYG HTML Editor that can be easily inserted into forms and applications using a simple Cold Fusion custom tag. Requires ColdFusion Server 4.5 or later. "Pro" version has extra features and is redistributable, but costs $100 US |
| tide | LGPL | | | | | | | | | | Windows only. No download yet. Last update was 2001. |
| wysiwyg_web_edit | ? | | | | | | | | | | IE and Netscape (with ActiveX plug-in from www.esker.com) |
| Xinha | ? | | | | | | | | | | Successor to htmlArea, this is an excellent and easy to use editor. |
| XS DHTML Editor | LGPL | | | | | | | | | | Windows only. Last update in April 2002, and now official "Inactive" according to SourceForge. |
Commercial
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| ActivEdit | From $100 | Demo | | | | |
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| Adminimizer Pro | $195 | Demo | | | | |
| | | | | | Windows only. On the server it requires Microsoft Data Access Components 2.5 or greater, Internet Explorer 5.5 or greater and the VB 6.0 runtime. |
| Advanced Content Editor | $70 | | | | | |
| | | | | | Replaced by InnovaStudio WYSIWYG Editor (see below) |
| AOI WYSIWYG Editor May be gone. | $2500 | | | | | |
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| | | Supports IE5+ and Netscape7+ on Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP and Mac OSX. Requires Blackboard. |
| authentic 5 Browser Edition | Free. | | | | | |
| | | | | | Windows only. authentic™ 2004 is a browser enabled document editor, allowing business users to seamlessly capture thoughts and ideas directly into XML. Save to any content management system, database, or XML repository for later retrieval or transformation - to unlock corporate knowledge. The authentic™ 2004 word-processor style interface is ideally suited as a lightweight editing component for building document frameworks -standards-based XML document management systems for web publishing or knowledge management applications. |
| axWebEd | €49 | | | | | |
| | | | | | Windows only. Add-on for phpWebEd. "shareware" but not really |
| csPublisher | $99 | | | | | |
| | | | | | Windows only. Perl-based CMS which includes Win/IE5.5+ only WYSIWYG editor. |
| DevEdit | From $299 | Demo | | | | |
| | | | | | Windows only. JavaScript must be enabled. Available in ASP, PHP, ASP.NET, CF5.0 and CFMX. Stylesheet support. Produces XHTML-compliant output. Even if you load a non-compliant piece of HTML, DevEdit will convert it to XHTML. This can also be disabled |
| edit-on Pro | From €249 | | | | | |
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| | 30% educational discount. Java 1.1, XHTML compliant. Higher level of XHTML support/validation than most editors. Uses Java applet. API available. |
| Editize | $149 per domain name | | | | | |
| | | | | | Java, XHTML compliant. Plone solution available. |
| EditLive | From $239 | Demo | | | | |
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| Supports Mac OS X, Windows, Linux and Solaris. Supports XML, WebDAV, internationalization, 508 compliance. Version 5.0 was released in August 2005. ActiveX and Java editions also available. CoexEdit integration with Notes/Domino available shortly. |
| eWebEditPro | From $359 for 10 users and one URL | Demo | | | | |
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| | | Windows only. Internet browser for editing: Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.01 or later, Netscape Navigator 4.7x, Netscape 6, Netsacpe 7, Mozilla 1.0 (eWebEditPro recognizes Mozilla 1.0 as Netscape 7.0); If using Netscape browser, IE 4.01 or later must be installed. |
| eWebEditPro+XML | From $499 for 10 users and one URL | Demo | | | | |
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| | | Windows only but IE or Netscape and support for XHTML/XML. Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 or later, Netscape Navigator 4.7x, Netscape 6. If using Netscape browser, IE 5.0 or later must be installed. Note: Browsers must run under Microsoft Windows 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, or later. |
| eWebWP | $99 | Demo | | | | |
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| Built upon Macromedia Flash MX technology. Mac OS 9.2*: Internet Explorer 5.0 and higher Mac OS X*: Internet Explorer 5.1 (and higher), Netscape 6.2 (and higher), and Mozilla 1.0.1 (and higher) Windows*: Internet Explorer 4.0 (and higher), Netscape 4.7, Netscape 6.2 (and higher), Opera 6.0 (and higher), and Mozilla 1.x *Requires: Macromedia Flash Player Version 6.0.47.0 (or higher). Linux 7.3: Netscape 7.0, and Mozilla 1.1. Requires Macromedia Flash Player for Linux (in final beta version) |
| flash HTML editor | From €99 | Demo | | | | |
| | | | | | Requires Flash. Supports XML. |
| HardCore Web Content Editor | From £25 | Demo | | | | |
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| | CSS support. Runs with any standard web server and server-side scripting language including ASP, JSP, PHP, Perl and ColdFusion. Optional advanced hyperlink and media manager dialog window examples included in ASP, JSP and PHP. Easily adaptable to Perl and Cold Fusion and other server-side scripting languages. Includes full open program source code for unlimited customisation, expansion and integration. |
| htmlEditbox | From $40 | Demo | | | | |
| | | | | | Windows only and PHP. CSS support. |
| Html TextBox | From $149 | Demo | | | | |
| | | | | | Windows only. ASP.NET server control. XHTML compliant.CSS support. Microsoft Word code cleaner with "CleanOnPaste" option. |
| InnovaStudio WYSIWYG Editor | $70 | Demo | | | | |
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| | | Buy a developer license and use unlimited in your apps and commercial products. |
| JWebEdixx | From €249 | Demo | | | | |
| | | | | | Java 1.4 or higher is required. Table and Stylesheet support is coming up. |
| KTML3 | From $99 | Demo | | | | |
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| | | | IE6 and Mozilla 1.4. CSS support. What makes KTML3 a revolutionary product is the Live Property Inspector. This is an object-sensitive property tab that helps you configure any object on the page to satisfy your design requirements. This powerful feature is accompanied by the Tag Selector, which offers you total control over HTML tags in a visual way. Based on DOM (Document Object Model), the Tag Inspector allows users to easily select a certain tag or to remove it. Designed to work closely with Dreamweaver MX and to offer support for all PHP server models. This means that if you are using Dreamwever MX, you will be able to add a KTML3 control on a page with a simple Server Behavior, that will also allow you to customize all the control properties. |
| LIME | From €400 | Demo | | | | |
| | | | | | HTML Editor of Q42. Runs only in Win/IE5.5 + 6. Allows multiple users profiles, image uploads, block moving and editing, css styles. Needs PHP or MS-ASP running on a server. Rest is done client side. |
| Online Flash RTE | $250/year | Demo | | | | |
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| OU Courseware Advantage | Pricing is per annum based on number of users | | | | | |
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| | Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP and Internet Explorer 5.5 and higher, or Netscape 4.0 and higher. Macintosh 8.1 or higher, or Mac OS X and Internet Explorer 5.0 and higher, or Netscape 6.0 and higher, or Apple Safari Internet Browser. Requires Blackboard Learning Systems version 5.5.1 or higher running on Windows, Linux or Solaris; Blackboard Building Blocks Capable Client; Blackboard Building Blocks. Pricing is per annum based on number of users (e.g. 100 users $2,500 per annum, Windows only). |
| r.a.d.editor | From $125 | D | | | | |
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| | | Cross-browser support: IE, Netscape 7.2, Mozilla 1.3 - r.a.d.editor is the first ASP.NET content editor to support non IE browsers. Due to the major incompatibilities between the browser platforms the component has been rewritten completely to ensure correct behavior. Server: Microsoft ASP.NET Version 1.0. |
| Rich Editor | From $49 | Demo | | | | |
| | | | | | IE 5+. IE 6+ is recommended. JavaScript: must be enabled. Server Scripting Language: PHP 4.0 or above. Full stylesheet support. Paste text from Microsoft Word. |
| RichTextBox | From $149 | Demo | | | | |
| | | | | | Windows only. CSS support. |
| Sferyx JSyndrome HTMLEditor 4.5 | From $89 for 10 users in one domain | | | | | |
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| | Full featured visual HTML Editor Java Bean component supporting IE, Firefox, Safari and others. There is both a component and applet version, plus numerous pricing options. |
| SnippetMaster | From $25 | Demo | | | | |
| | | | | | Windows only and PHP. Lite version is free. |
| SoftChalk | $2500 per annum | | | | | |
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| | It works with both Windows (XP, 2000, NT, ME, 98) and Macintosh (MacOS X) Internet Explorer (5.0 or higher), Netscape browsers (NS4, NS6, NS7 or Mozilla), and Apple's Safari browser. Requires Blackboard Learning System 5.x or 6.x , Level 2 or Level 3. |
| soEditor | From $299 | Demo | | | | |
| | | | | | Windows only. CSS support. Lite version is free. |
| SpellChecker | $199 | | | | | |
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| | | | The rich text editor is a free option to our spell checker. It is very natural to use, integration is reasonable and yet flexible. Currently supports Mozilla Gecko 1.4 and IE 5.5+. Working on IE 5.0 support as well as some more functions such as insert image, tables, commaonly used terms, special symbols such as copyrights trademarks, Euro's and the like. |
| Tabula | €199 | Demo | | | | |
| | | | | | Windows only. |
| Textarea Rich | From £10 | | | | | |
| | | | | | Windows only. |
| tGedit | $100 | | | | | |
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| | | | Windows only. tGedit is a WYSIWYG HTML Editor that can be easily inserted into forms and applications using a simple Cold Fusion custom tag. Requires ColdFusion Server 4.5 or later. "Pro" version ($100) has extra features and is redistributable. Mozilla and Firefox only available in "Pro" version, as are multiple instances and toolbar customization. |
| Think HTML Edit Control | From $250 | Demo | | | | |
| | | | | | The HTML Editor Control from Think Technologies allows developers to insert a fully featured HTML editor into any web page or application, and gives developers the power to create a fully featured HTML editor, easily and inexpensively. The HTML Editor Control can be easily integrated in to web pages with just a few lines of code, and is flexible enough to be used in many development environments. The Think HTML Editor control easily integrates directly into web pages, Visual Basic projects, or any other development environment supporting ActiveX Controls. |
| tinyEdit | From $120 | Demo | | | | |
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| | | | Windows only. tinyEdit provides an easy interface to editing what are called “blocks” or sections of a web page. By using tinyEdit and either PHP or ASP the designer can enable a “block” of the website to be editable. tinyEdit uses a command key (Ctrl-Z) to start an edit - at this point the user sees outlines of the editable areas. These areas can be clicked on and WYSIWYG editor shows up. |
| VerveJEdit | From $99 | D | | | | |
| | | | | | VerveJEdit has been extensively tested under Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and Solaris. It will work on any platform that supports Java. VerveJEdit requires the Java plugin version 1.4 or better. |
| Web-based Content Editor | $25 | | | | | |
| | | | | | Windows only. |
| WebEdit Pro | From $179 | Demo | | | | |
| | | | | | Windows only. CSS support. |
| WebFlint Editor | From £206 | Demo | | | | |
| | | | | | Windows only. CSS support. Microsoft Word compatibility. WebFlint Editor also integrates as a web service client which can communicate with service provider using the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP). |
| WebWord | POA | | | | | |
| | | | | | Windows only. Supports CSS styles and MS Office tags cleaning.Not clear if widget is available separately without consultancy. "We can implement the WebWord WYSIWYG content editor into any custom PHP, ASP, ColdFusion application." |
| WXEdit | POA | Demo | | | | | | | | | | | Windows only and Javascript enabled on your browser. PHP version 4.1.0 or above. No downloadable ActiveX control or DLLs required - 100% Script (using DHTML & Javascript). Includes a Macromedia Flash object manager with preview. Includes an HTML cleanup function - this option is very useful after copying Microsoft Word content. |
| WysiwygPro | From $47 | Demo | | | | | | | | | | | WysiwygPro supports all Internet Explorer versions from 5.0 up, Netscape 7.1 and Mozilla 1.4. WysiwygPro is pure JavaScript and HTML in the browser, it requires no browser plug-ins, ActiveX controls or Java Applets. You can configure the editor to generate either HTML 4.01 or well formed XHTML 1.0. In XHTML mode WysiwygPro will convert your documents to XHTML even if they weren't originally. When text is pasted from Microsoft Word alot of unnecessary markup is carried across; the Paste from Word button solves this by removing word markup before pasting the text into your page. Currently WysiwygPro is only available as a PHP package. |
| Xopus | POA | | | | | | | | | | | | Windows only. (Mozilla 1.x support withdrawn). Works with XML, XSLT and XSD. See Arbortext news. |
| XStandard | From $179 | | | | | | | | | | | | Internet Explorer, Mozilla and Firefox. |
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