The Whizzywig editor

♦ 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, 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. It is lightweight, at 25k, and is the most powerful rich text editor for its size. It does not require a Javascript library, and works independently of JQuery, MooTools, etc.

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 59  November 4, 2009 - changelog | Whizzywig Demo | Download

What they say

  • Thanks for the wonderful versatile script - Phil
  • My hat off the John and crew! This is hands down the best editor for ASP.NET or ASP I have ever used!!!!! - NetlinksCorp.com
  • Thanks for a great piece of software - J Dyer
  • Cet éditeur est mieux que d'autres que l'on peut trouver. Il est plus simple et contient les éléments essentiels. - BigFish
  • THE FASTEST EDITOR for DRUPAL !!! - Drupal Whizzywig team

See it work

Try this demo !!!

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, Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Opera
    (some restrictions with Chrome/Safari)
  • bold Bold, italic italic,
  • indent Indent, outdentoutdent, leftleft justify, rightright justify, centercenter text
  • undoUndo and redoredo
  • color216 'web-safe' color picker ...
  • ...but supports other colors and color names (e.g. red, orange, darkgreen, cornflowerblue, magenta, chocolate, indigo)
  •  bullet Bulleted and numbered list numbered lists
  • /silkbtn/table.pngcreate tables

    • add row above

    add column before

    add row below

    add column after

    delete row

    delete column

  • image Insert and align images
  • link Insert and edit hyperlinks
  • cleanClean up after paste in from Word or other office products - removes unwanted formatting so the the pasted text conforms to your site style
  • /silkbtn/html.pngview and edit the HTML source for the edited text
  • spellcheckSpellcheck (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.
  • generates valid xhtml
  • Attach your own stylesheet, so the editor output matches your site style - see Customize 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
  • View and edit source
  • Fully configurable toolbar: as many or few controls as you want, you choose the order
  • Attach your own stylesheet
  • Multiple whizzywigs on the same page

To download and install

  1. Grab the latest version whizzywig.js from the Whizzywig project page at Google code and save it to your PC.
  2. Upload it to your website - see how to upload with ftp.
  3. 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:

Grab them from the Whizzywig project page at Google code.
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