A Lightweight Rich Text Editor in jQuery

November 13th, 2007 Posted by Don Albrecht

jQuery RTE

As excellent as Xinha, YUI RTE, Tiny MCE, FCK & the other heavyweight Rich Text Widgets are, they can be massive overkill for many projects Weighing in at only 7k (uncompressed). This jQuery Editor is an incredibly light weight and responsive alternative to the big guns for most projects.

Features:

Stylesheet based formatting
Image support
Link Support
Strong, emphasis
Bulleted list
Source view

Supported Browsers

IE6+
Safari 3+
Firefox
Opera

Check it out online here:

http://batiste.dosimple.ch/blog/posts/2007-09-11-1/rich-text-editor-jquery.html

4 Comments

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December 1st, 2007 at 7:56 am

link support doesn’t work with IE & FF
Don Albrecht
December 1st, 2007 at 5:35 pm

It worked for me in both IE 7 & FF 2 on Mac & PC.
It does use a pop-up however. Could a blocker be causing problems for you?
Daniel
May 12th, 2008 at 12:42 am

Looks great! Just getting into jQuery and been looking for something lightweight like this.

Does it work with plugins like jEditable or any other editInPlace plugin?
Don Albrecht
May 18th, 2008 at 6:22 pm

Not very well in my experience. I’ve been trying to get an edit in place plugin to work with an RTE for some time. There are numerous issues that spring up. Especially related to the way they use iframes and dom creation.