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 HTML (or xhtml, if you prefer) 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 55 February 27, 2007 - changelog

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See it work

Try this demo click!!!

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 generating XHTML.

See this demo configured with file browsers for images and links. After clicking the image button, click [Browse] on the insert image form.

If you want to edit pages and see the changes, try the whizzywig playground.

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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

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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:

download them all in this buttons zip file, or ...
right click each image on the toolbar in the demo and save to a file on your computer.
upload the images to a directory on your webserver.
set the buttonPath as described in Using Whizzywig on web pages.

There are more files, examples and extras on the download page.

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