10 Best WYSIWYG Text and HTML Editors for Your Projects

Give users the opportunity text formatting without learning additional code is something developers have been hard at work over the past few years. And all is not in vain, they have already made significant progress. We present you the 10 most used WYSIWYG editors. We hope that you will pick up something for your own projects.

01. NickEdit

NicEdit is an excellent alternative to large and cumbersome editors. It includes all the required features, but remains very easy to integrate into the site.

02. TinyMCE


TinyMCE is a free javascript HTML WYSIWYG editor. It is easy to embed into the site, and it provides a wide range of options for customizing and changing the appearance. TinyMCE is probably the most "complete" editor in our selection today. Almost MSWord.

03. CKEditor


CKeditor is the new FCKEditor, which has won the title of market leader in the past. The editor is based on it, and aims to fix what was causing problems in FCKEditor. The result is a highly productive WYSIWYG editor that offers all the features you would normally use in MSWord or Open Office.

04. YUI Rich Text Editor


YUI Rich Text Editor is a graphical user interface from Yahoo that turns an ordinary text input field into a full-fledged WYSIWYG editor. The application is provided in different versions, with different features and content. But using any of the versions, you will get all the functions necessary for the editor.


Markitup is a jQuery plugin that allows you to turn a regular text input field into a tag editor and formatter. Html, Wiki and BBcode are just a few of what the plugin offers. Markitup is not a WYSIWYG editor, but that doesn't make it worse, as it offers you all the functionality you need.

06. FreeTextBox


freetextbox is an HTML editor designed specifically for ASP.NET. The appearance of the editor is very similar to Microsoft Word. The free version doesn't really have many features, but it has everything you need.

07. MooEditable


WYSIWYG editors now mostly provide plugins for the popular jQuery library, and to a lesser extent Mootools. MooEditable quite fills this gap, being a simple but very effective javascript library. If you are a fan of Mootools, then you will not have any problems with it.

08. OpenWysiwyg?


Open Wysiwyg is a full-fledged cross-browser editor with all the required features. It even includes attractive dropdown menus and buttons. Unfortunately, Chrome won't support it.

09. Spaw Editor- site is dead


spaw editor is a WYSIWYG editor that allows website developers to replace standard text fields with a managed HTML editor, with a wide range of settings, in many languages ​​and with the ability to change the look and feel.

10.jHtmlArea


jHtmlArea is another WYSIWYG text editor that is a plugin for Jquery. The purpose of the plugin is simplicity and ease of use. It includes all required features. You can customize appearance, features, and languages.