Question

I just stepped over to http://plugins.jquery.com/search/node/editor –
lots and lots of choices – and if to judge by the dates, many new
offerings. I’m hoping someone can help me narrow down the field
according to these priorities…

• Stability & Well-formed XHTML (might argue against some of the most recent unless they are revisions with a clear track-record)
• Inplace editing
• Good AJAX integration
• For internal / admin / CMS usage so it can be as bloated as it needs to be long as it’s easy to implement the basics:
  • bold
  • italics
  • indents
  • lists

No need for tables but dropdowns that show relevent CSS selectors would be nice.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Narrowing down your list of options: some of the better jQuery-based editors that fit at least most of your desired points seem to be:

• Jeditable — very flexible
• WYMeditor — popular with CMSes
• uEditor — clean and simple, but not in-place
• IPWEditor — uses TinyMCE or FCKeditor 🙁