javascript WYSIWYG HTML editors?

Question

What are the options for something that will let users make text bold/italic/underline/etc as they are writing in a textarea and work in all browsers?

Answer 1

Give a look to FKCEditor, I always recommend it...

Answer 2

I always liked TinyMCE http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/

Answer 3

I favor the Rich Text Editor in the YUI

Answer 4

I've used InnovaStudio WYSIWYG. Pretty extensible and cheap.

Answer 5

FCKEditor is a popular choice, although it's incredibly bloated. There's a nice simple example in jQuery jQuery Plugins

I wrote my own in the end as I wanted to customise the editor quite a lot. It's not too difficult to do and typically involves popping an iframe on the page, setting the contenteditable to be true and then using a simple javascript command to update the html of the iframe.