Last update: September 17, 2009 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: This list was originally started with editors from a list maintained by Paul Browning which was located at the University of Bristol's website at www.bris.ac.uk/is/projects/cms/ttw/ttw.html . Paul Browning has asked if I could update and maintain 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 an indication of those web editors which have been integrated with Genii Software's CoexEdit product. - E-mail us with questions and information about these or other editors. Browsers (assumed version): Firefox 1.0+, Internet Explorer 5.5+ , Mozilla 1.3+, Netscape 7.0+, Opera 6.0+, Safari ND = Lotus 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. For those printing this page, + means "supported", and - means "unsupported" Open Source Editors
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| Created because of problems ... finding a WYSIWYG editor for Safari and OS X Dashboard widgets. | 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 | |
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| | | 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 | | | | | |
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| | Kupu is a 'document-centric' open source client-side XHTML editor for Mozilla, Netscape and Internet Explorer. Inspired by Maik Jablonski's Epoz editor, it was originally written by Paul Everitt, Guido Wesdorp and Philipp von Weitershausen . | Mozile | MPL | | |
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| | | | | Windows only. Also availible as an executable . | Richtext Editor | LGPL | | | | | |
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| | | | | 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 | | | | | |
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| Platform independent. CSS support. Server: PHP4 on any compatible OS (PHP edition), .NET Framework 1.0 on any ASP .NET compatible OS (ASP .NET edition). Version 2.0.0 is in beta and due out January 2007. | Text Editor | ? | | | | | | | | | | | Requires FlashMX | tide | LGPL | | |
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| 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. Opera browser support requres Opera 9.0 Preview 1 . | TTW WYSIWYG Editor | LGPL | 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. Latest release March 27, 2006. | 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 | | | | | |
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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 | | | | |
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| | | | | | 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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| | | | | | 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. 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. | Wysiwyg Pro | From $47 | Demo | | | | | | | | | | | Wysiwyg Pro supports all Internet Explorer versions from 5.0 up, Netscape 7.1 and Mozilla 1.4. Wysiwyg Pro 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 Wysiwyg Pro 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 Wysiwyg Pro is only available as a PHP package. | Xopus | From €180 ($230) | Demo | |
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