openWYSIWYG is a free cross-browser WYSIWYG editor that’s shipped with most of the rich-text editing features you need.
This editor works as a textarea replacement with a single line of code. It can be used with any programming language as it is coded entirely in JavaScript.
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Some features of this free HTML editor:
- Loads very fast
- HTML source code editing
- Create lists, italic, bold or similar HTML properties
- Insert images
- Enhanced table creation
- Dropdowns with formatting preview
Requirements: No Requirements
Compatibility: All Major Browsers
It seems that canvas tag ( <canvas> ) will be very popular as it allows drawing graphics using scripting.
Canvas tag is supported in Firefox, Opera 9, Safari by default to allow 2D command-based drawing. But it is not supported by Internet Explorer.
ExplorerCanvas is a JavaScript that you can insert into your pages for bringing canvas functionality to Internet Explorer.
To get the ExplorerCanvas, click here.
For more details about the canvas tag, click here.
John Resig (the creator of jQuery) has created a pure JavaScript HTML parser that can definitely be very handy.
As more HTML code is inserted and formatted inside JavaScript tags, this parser can save serious development time with automating the process.
Some examples:
- Unclosed Tags:
HTMLtoXML("<p><b>Hello") == '<p><b>Hello</b></p>'
- Empty Elements:
HTMLtoXML("<img src=test.jpg>") == '<img src="test.jpg"/>'
- Attributes Without Values:
HTMLtoXML("<input disabled>") == '<input disabled="disabled"/>'
HTML is a language with lots of tricks and the parser may fail in some cases but it will work in most of them and will become better by time for sure.
Secure input and data handling is hard when it comes to HTML because of many different types of malicious code (XSS).
HTML Purifier is a well documented, standards-compliant HTML filter library written in PHP. It simply:
- Removes all malicious code (better known as XSS) with an audited, secure yet permissive whitelist.
- Makes sure your documents are standards compliant.
HTML Purifier requires PHP 5 (PHP 4 versions are not supported any more but can be downloaded). It saves so much time while developing & offers much more expertise than most of the self-coded data-handling libraries as HTML Purifier is concentrated only in this area.
This open source secure data handling solution also has a comparison chart wih other HTML filters.
Some community-written plugins for CMS softwares, WYSIWYG editors can be found in the HTML Purifier website.
Requirements: PHP 5+
TableKit, built with the Prototype Framework, not only improves the usability of standard HTML tables but also saves so much time while implementing a standard data editing & sorting functionality.
Features of TableKit:
- Row striping
- Column sorting
- Column resizing
- Cell editing using Ajax
Requirements: Prototype Framework
Compatibility: All Major Browsers
FCKeditor is a full featured, well-documented & simple to use WYSIWYG HTML text editor. It is lightweight, easy to implement.
With an integrated powerful ajax file manager, CKFinder, you can control both the media & content of your web applications.
Features:
- Multi browser compatibility
- Outputs XHTML 1.0
- CSS support for better integration with your web site
- Font formatting: type, size, color, style, bold, italic, etc
- Text formatting: alignment, indentation, bullets list, etc
- Cut, Paste, and Paste as Plain Text, Undo and Redo
- Paste from Word cleanup with auto detection
- Link and anchors support
- Image insertion, with upload and server browsing support
- Table creation and editing (add, delete rows, etc) – one of the best systems on the market.
- Table cells editing (size, colors, etc)
- Form fields
- Right click context menus support
- Complete toolbar customization
- Skins support
- Plugins support
- Spell checker
- Multi-language support with automatic user language detection. Including Right to Left scripting.
- Complete page editing (from <HTML> to </HTML>) or just contents.
- Lightweight and fast
- Automatic browser detection and customization
- Integration with ASP, ASP.NET, Java, ColdFusion, Perl, PHP, JavaScript and more.
- Image and file links upload and server repository browser.
- For web developers it is easy to install and customize
- For web users it’s simple and easy to use!
Requirements: No Requirements
Compatibility: http://www.fckeditor.net/download
NicEdit is a Javascript/AJAX inline content editor that allows easy editing of web ssd/div editable or convert standard textareas to rich text editing.
This lightweight (compressed size is <10kb) html editor is integrated into any website in seconds. Inserting a JavaScript code is enough for all textareas to be converted into WYSIWYG HTML editors.
Requirements: No Requirements
Compatibility: All Major Browsers
Convert HTML To ASP, PHP Or JSP? The title might seem fancier than the reality.
Response.Right is a web based tool which converts HTML into a variable (which is, probably, one of the top 10 hated tasks of a web developer).
This tool is very useful, for example, when creating a html mail that will be sent via a dynamic scripting language or converting large amounts of html that will be used inside these dynamic languages.
Supported programming languages:
- ASP – Javascript
- ASP – VBScript
- JSP
- PHP
Accessify.com offers some other free web based tools like Insta-Select (XHTML-compliant select list generator), Acrobot (converts all your acronyms/abbreviations using the <acronym> and <abbr> tag) & more.
Requirements: No Requirements
If you are looking for a WYSIWYG editor, TinyMCE can be the right choice.
It is a lightweight, platform independent javascript content editor that is created by Moxiecode Systems. TinyMCE is easy to integrate into any system and compatible with the web browsers like Firefox, IE, Opera and Safari.
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