Whizzywig
web based rich text editor for free
Whizzywig is easy. It lets people create rich, formatted text through a web form. It actually creates xhtml, if you but you need no HTML knowledge to use it. If you can use a word processor or email, then you can use this.
Whizzywig is cross-browser: it is written in Javascript, which will run in nearly all web browsers.
Whizzywig is FREE. Free to copy, free to use and free to change. Free for personal use, free for commercial use. See the licence for the details. Basically, it says it is FREE.
latest version is 56 June 15, 2009 - changelog
See it work
Try this demo 
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See this demo using text buttons.
See this demo with mutiple edit areas.
see this demo in Spanish OR Italian OR German OR French or dutch.
See this demo configured with file browsers for images and links. After clicking the image button, click [Browse] on the insert image form.
Whizzywig Features
- Whizzywig is FREE. Free to copy, free to use and free to change.
- WYSIWYG - What You See Is What You Get (pretty much). Pronounce it "Whizzywig".
- Works with: Internet Explorer 5.0 and above on PC, Mozilla 1.3 and above on PC and Mac (includes Netscape 6+, Mozilla Firefox)
(View HTML needs ie 5.5)
Bold, 
italic, 
underline
Indent, 
outdent, 
left justify, 
right justify, 
center text
Undo and 
redo
216 'web-safe' color picker ...
- ...but supports other colors and color names (e.g. red, orange, darkgreen, cornflowerblue, magenta, chocolate, indigo)
Bulleted and 
numbered lists
create tables
add row above
add column before
add row below
add column after
delete row
delete column
Insert and align images
Insert and edit hyperlinks
Clean up after paste in from Word or other office products - removes unwanted formatting so the the pasted text conforms to your site style
view and edit the HTML source for the edited text
Spellcheck (uses ieSpell for Internet Explorer)
- Fully configurable toolbar: as many or few controls as you want, you choose the order, even the color
- can be translated into other languages - see this Spanish version OR GERMAN VERSION.
- can generate valid xhtml
- Attach your own stylesheet, so the editor output matches your site style - see customizing Whizzywig
- Small - just 25k of Javascript (but similar features to editors 5 times this size)
- Fast - Small and light weight and avoids pop-ups: no round trips to web server during editing
- Easy to install - just one javascript file - no extra files for dialogs
- Use text buttons, the graphic buttons supplied or create your own
To download and install
- Click whizzywig.js and Save As... to your PC.
- Upload it to your website - see Google on how to upload with ftp.
- To use whizzywig with text buttons - see the text button demo - that's all you need.
now read Using Whizzywig on web pages.
If you want the graphic buttons:
Right click the above image and "Save As" WhizzywigToolbar.png. Upload to your website, to the directory where you will using whizzywig.
There are more files, examples and extras on the download page.
See also
- Using Whizzywig in your web pages
- customizing Whizzywig
- Change log for version info
- Frequently Asked Questions
- discussion forum
Yes..
...this page was made with whizzywig.