Monday, August 13, 2007

HTML WYSIWYG editor control

I've been evaluating few HTML editor controls to fit into a widget. First one went through was, Ext HTML Editor control. This works fine with a normal HTML page or an ASPX page - but does not function properly when added within "form" tags. Seems to be an issue to deal with the javascripts attached to it.As always - debugging javascripts is a tedious task.

The second one to evaluate was TinyMCE HTML editor - which seems to be the best match for my requirement. TinyMCE is a platform independent web based 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.

2 comments:

  1. Anonymous6:41 PM

    You might want to consider FCK too. It isn't perfect though.

    TinyMCE is very powerful, but the extensibility comes at a price. If your users are accustomed to entering some HTML tags, TinyMCE will screw over the content.

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  2. Thanks for comment, drac.

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