: What options are out there for an embeddable WYSIWIG text editor? I'm thinking something along the lines of TinyMCE Please include a list of features. Examples include: supports text formatting

@BetL925

Aloha Editor


… a semantic Rich Text Editor framework written in Javascript with
best support of xHTML5.


Features

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Aloha Editor Links …
Repositories - connect everything …
No reload. No popup. No need to preview …
Editing and formatting text without markup …
The floating menu. A brand new lightweight context menu. …
Tables for the web. …
Faster. …
WYSIWYG for dynamic content. …
Contenteditable. HTML5 available - now. …
Get what you expect. …


Selected as the editor of choice for the interface of Booktype.


… five clear advantages to using it.


In-context editing. Aloha, unlike WYSIWYG editors, actually lets you edit the page rather than the text abstracted from the page.
This makes for a much nicer editing experience and opens up a lot of
other possibilities for interacting with the page.
Good development activity. The Aloha team are very approachable and active. We talked to a couple of the core dev team and are happy
that they are easy going and seem good to work with.
Uses JQuery. Aloha just changed to JQuery libs recently which is great because Booktype also uses a lot of JQuery so it minimalises
the possibilities for conflict and lowers the number of external
libraries required.
In-browser design a step closer. Aloha interacts directly with HTML5 content editable regions without changing the structure of the
page which means any CSS applied is unmediated and can be effected
directly by the user.
Can work with external Javascripts. Because Aloha doesn't change the structure of the page (as per above) any external JS libs
can work directly on the content without needing to be altered.

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@Welton855

CKEditor


Open Source (Free)
Clean output
Fast loading
Great javascript API
Lots of documentation
Lots of great samples in various programming frameworks
You can easily build plugins
You can easily create custom toolbar functionality
Supports custom file browsers in addition to the one they sell
Very easy to install and configure
Has a large user base
It has nifty jQuery adapter

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@Lee4591628

TinyMCE


Easy to integrate - Only a few lines of code needed.
Customizable - Themes and plugins, block invalid elements and force attributes.
Browserfriendly - Mozilla, MSIE, FireFox, Opera, Safari and Chrome.
Lightweight - PHP/.NET/JSP/Coldfusion GZip compressor, Makes TinyMCE 75% smaller and a lot faster to load.
AJAX Compatible - You can easily use AJAX to save and load content!
International - Multilanguage support using language packs.
Open Source - Free under the LGPL license, millions of ppl help test and improve this editor every day.

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