Meet Nicedit, A full featured, lightweight Rich Text Area without Library Dependencies

December 20th, 2007 Posted by Don Albrecht

Nice Edit Screen Shot

We’ve seen several of these lightweight alternatives to the traditional full featured text editors lately. NicEdit is a fitting addition to the collection.

Features:

No Library dependencies (Great when you only need a text area)
Flexible interface sizing
Under 10KB compressed
Only 2 files (JS & Icons)
Supports: IE 5.5+ / FF 2+ / Opera 9+ / Safari 3+
Inline editing with remote tool panel
Ajax Support
Highly configurable button set

All in all, this is a nice widget that has several features not found in other Rich Text Editors. A worthy addition to the Ajax ecosystem.
You can find NicEdit at http://nicedit.com/index.php

5 Comments

jc
December 21st, 2007 at 10:01 pm

The real question is - does it work with javascript libraries?

prototype, jquery, mooTools, etc
Don Albrecht
December 22nd, 2007 at 12:21 pm

At first glance, it looks like it should. I plan on testing this with jQuery this weekend.
Don Albrecht
December 22nd, 2007 at 1:37 pm

Well, it definitely works with jQuery. Some of the calls to prototype are unnecessary when paired with a larger framework, but they don’t conflict.
jason
July 29th, 2008 at 2:39 am

It doesnt work with JQuery-UI though. I got a problem when i try to use this plugin, neither $(’#id_description’).attr(’value’) nor $(’.rte-zone’).attr(’value’) could get the value of the textarea, how come?
Don Albrecht
August 3rd, 2008 at 6:25 pm

Nicedit doesn’t automatically save it’s data back into the text area. You can either access the value through the Nicedit API or just save the value back into the textarea like so

wysiwyg.instanceById(’page_body’).saveContent();

Before you try to pull the data