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Hi,

I'm wondering if anyone knows where to get source codes for online WYSIWYG HTML Editor. I really really appreciate it if you guys/gals knows any which are cross browser compatible.
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ActiveEdit is a beaut -

check it out:

http://www.cfdev.com/activedit2/demo/

cheers.
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meverest: Is that Cross Browser?  If it is that is very impressive.

http://users.ox.ac.uk/~pault/netwedit.htm
Simple JS version :-)

And not wysiwyg but my own html editor (js not created but modified by me)

http://www.tofah.com/editor/editor.cfm

CJ
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CJ,

I know that this is probably too much to ask .. but I'm wondering if you can provide me with your source code for the html editor you did? I think that it's great

thanx a lot
Sure I can send you the code zipped up whats your email addy.

CJ
> meverest: Is that Cross Browser?  If it is that is very impressive.

i don't know for sure - i haven't tried it on non-IE browser, but i assume it would be, being all java.

ask dain anderson - he uses it on his cfcomet site.

cheers.
hey,

i just found the best html editor i have ever seen!

http://www.siteobjects.com/index.cfm?fuseAction=showezedit

and the preamble says (and i quote): "blah blah blah, all you need to know is that it's FREE!!"

perfect! ;-)

Its only IE compatible. In Netscape you get a text area and a save button thats it.

CJ
yep, only IE it is, but if you have the luxury of being able to decree the client spec (as is the application i am using it for ;) then it is just purrfect!

cheers.
 
hey, i just noticed that SpineyNorman had already suggested ezedit about <duh> why didn't i check it out before :-}
I am the senior applications developer for a company that develops a content management system which uses a wysiwyg html editor called ICE (In-Context Editor) that we developed in house. It uses the same basic approach to do editing that active and ezedit use. These products as well as our own use features which are only found in IE 4.0 or higher (actually, these "features" only became truly supported in IE 5.0, but you could still make a working wysiwyg editor in IE 4, it was just MUCH more complicated). Anyways, all of these products use javscript (or vbscript but really the same difference) to do the actual work. ALL of them use calls which are proprietary to IE, and NONE of them will work on any other browser. That said, it is possible to create a wysiwyg editor for other browsers, but you cant really do it with pure scripting (the netwedit example that cheekycj gave is only "pseudo" wysiwyg). It has to be done using either:

1. java
2. activex component
3. netscape plugin
4. a browser which supports some form of editing API (currently only IE, alhtough it might happen for Mozilla down the road)

There is already a commercial product which uses an activex component for the editor (I forget the name, but it is very nice) that is marketed as a replacement for the crude wysiwyg editor included in Spectra. It can be used in IE and Netscape. For netscape it uses a plugin which allows loading of activex components, but to do this the user still must have IE installed... I have yet to see a commercial quality java editor, but that would probably be the most portable method of doing it... It would also be VERY difficult.

My company is considering releasing the editor itself as freeware, but I honestly dont know if I can convince them to do this since it is the most prized feature of our content management system which is a commercial product. If I ever convince them to do it I will post a link to the source code in the forum. It is imho, much more advanced than either activeedit, ezedit, or any other script-based editor I have seen.  Anyway, if you decide to go the IE only route, I would be more than happy to answer any questions you have, but I cant really give you any meaningful code :(
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