Tiny Javascript WYSIWYG Editor

If you search google for “wysiwyg JavaScript” you will find many full feature “what you see is what you get” editors written in JavaScript and developed for use within html forms. However many of these have dependencies upon external libraries such as jQuery or simply have everything plus the kitchen sink included; if your developing an online word processor this many not be much of a problem to you however within the recent development work I have been involved in I just needed a good quality WYSIWYG editor, written in JavaScript and with only the basic text formatting features included. I am still unsure how I stumbled upon TinyEditor by Leighber, however stumble I did and it has proven perfect for my simplistic needs while having a few more extensive features for future expansion only when required and best of all it is a stand-alone package!

Other WYSIWYG editors I discovered and tested during my hunt where the jQuery based jwysiwyg project and the more complex wymeditor. While these were too complex for my needs they do work quite well and I would recommend you give them a go before making your mind up.

The one problem I do I have with TinyEditor is the unfortunate lack of a paste from word feature, I am hoping that this does become included soon because it is the only additional feature that is a must with WYSIWYG HTML editors due to paste from word screwing your nicely formatted code up upon submit.