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javascript WYSIWYG HTML editors?

Im not quite sure how to put this as i dont know what its called. But essentially what i need is a textarea like the one on stack overflow with a Bold button where you highlight text, or bullet points etc and I have heard there are some good open source ones.

I have a database with php going into it from a plain text area, i just need to be able to do extra features.

Many thanks!

Answer 1

I personally use http://ckeditor.com/ for most things, since you can customize it to meet your demands with relative ease, and dispite many WYSIWYG editors it actually handles the generated HTML quite well.

For the textarea to receive and send off data, you will need to consult the documentation for the WYSIWYG editor you are using, since it varies from editor to editor, how you manipulate, set and get data.

You will need to output the HTML with PHP like this:

echo htmlspecialchars($database_stuff["content"]);

Then the otuputted content will not be parsed by the browser (but by the WYSIWYG editor – if parsed at all).