JavaScript

Editing HTML in the browser (with *script, text controls, etc...)

Also:

• Dynamic Inline Image generation
• Browser based Text Editors +

See also:

• http://codemirror.net/ +
• http://gwt.google.com/samples/Showcase/Showcase.html#CwRichText Googles Rich Text editor for all major browsers
• http://www.devguru.com/features/tutorials/wysiwyg/wysiwyg1.asp Nice tutorial on how to build a WYSIWYG HTML Editor Using Only JavaScript and HTML. IE specific.
• http://sourceforge.net/projects/fckeditor/ Active project, supports many servers, full featured, easy install.
• http://www.kevinroth.com/rte/demo.htm Public Domain, cross browser, basic but quite usable.+
• http://24ways.org/advent/edit-in-place-with-ajax Edit in place with AJAX. A nice tutorial on "Asynchronous JavaScript and XML" methods applied to editing content.+
• http://www.koivi.com/WYSIWYG-Editor/ Cross browser, simple but nice+
• http://pilat.free.fr/english/svgfonc/fonc.htm Edits SVG graphics in the editor. Mostly for math.+
• http://m.synovic.home.att.net/codespy/codespy.html A little window that shows (and allows you to edit) the HTML in all other pages when you mouse over them.+
• http://www.speedsite.ca/ContentEditorSample/ContentEditor/ContentEditor.asp Nice job on makeing items position absolute or relative +
• http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/samples/internet/browser/binarybehavior/default.asp IE5 specific activeX (must approve download of control)
• http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/samples/internet/author/html/htmleditor/default.asp IE6 specific jscript (no control download)
• http://www.insidedhtml.com/ie5/htmlarea/page1.asp IE5 specific
• http://www.insidedhtml.com/tips/contents/ts12/page1.asp IE4 specific
• http://users.localone.net/HTML_Reference/Scripting_Reference/selo.htm selection and editing in the document (or a field?)
• http://www.webreference.com/js/column12/index.html selections of text in the document and event handeling in NS 4 and IE 4.
• http://www.webreference.com/js/column4/workaround.html how to change document content in NS 4
• http://www.simonstl.com/dynhtml/update/chap8/chap8.html dynamic find, replace in IE 4 documents
• http://www.aspforums.com/ASPScriptComponents/ASPRichEdit/
  • http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/commandids.asp

• http://www.velt.net a really nice open source version. (cached 20011026144334 )
  This version is quite old. The latest version can be downloaded from http://velt.net (0.83b) If you like the old version, you will love the new one. Sincerely, Rein Velt rein@velt.net
• http://www.openmymind.net/editor/ very nice... clean  and simple appearence IE 5.5 specific.
• ttp://www.interactivetools.com/ lots of user enhancements in the forums. A little buggy, but very powerfull. ASP VBscript
• http://www.contenteditable.com/index.html probably the best... massive features and very easy and clean. Drag boxes around images (how'd he do that?). Perl script
• http://sourceforge.net/projects/pagetool/ Pagetool is a web content management program that allows people with limited technical skills to modify and contribute to an organization's web site via a web browser. Pagetool is designed to give maximum flexibility to web designers.
• http://htmledit.squarefree.com/ Automatically refreshing preview of html. Seems effective. Nothing fancy, just repeatedly setting a 150ms timeout on a function that reloads the bottom frame from the content of the textedit in the top frame.

Internet Explorer World Wide Web Browser +

http://www.geniisoft.com/showcase.nsf/WebEditors Another list of in browser editors. Very complete with compatibility information included. +

http://www.htmlarea.com/directory/Web_Software_Components/WYSIWYG_Editors/index.html Commercial (mostly) in browser WYSIWYG HTML editors. +

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