sanduhrs / wysihtml5

Open source rich text editor based on HTML5 and the progressive-enhancement approach. Uses a sophisticated security concept and aims to generate fully valid HTML5 markup by preventing unmaintainable tag soups and inline styles.

wysihtml5 0.3.0

wysihtml5 is an open source rich text editor based on HTML5 technology and the progressive-enhancement approach.
It uses a sophisticated security concept and aims to generate fully valid HTML5 markup by preventing unmaintainable tag soups and inline styles.
The code is completely library agnostic: No jQuery, Prototype or similar is required.

This project was initiated and is supported by the XING AG. Thanks!

Features

• Auto linking of urls as-you-type
• Generates valid and semantic HTML5 markup (no <font>)
• Uses class-names instead of inline styles
• Unifies line-break handling across browsers (hitting enter will create <br> instead of <p> or <div>)
• Auto-parses content inserted via copy & paste (from Word, Powerpoint, PDF, other web pages, …)
• Converts invalid or unknown html tags into valid/similar tags
• Source code view for users with HTML skills
• Uses sandboxed iframes in order to prevent identity theft through XSS
• Editor inherits styles and attributes (placeholder, autofocus, …) from original textarea (you only have to style one element)
• Speech-input for Chrome

Browser Support

The rich text editing interface is supported in IE8+, FF 3.5+, Safari 4+, Safari on iOS 5+, Opera 11+ and Chrome.
Graceful Degradation: Users with other browsers will see the textarea and are still able to write plain HTML by themselves.

Demos

• Simple Editor with italic and bold buttons
• Editor with advanced functionality

Companies using wysihtml5

• Basecamp – Leading web-based project management and collaboration tool
• XING – Business Social Network with more than 12 million members
• Qype – Largest user-generated local review site in Europe
• and many more …

Wiki

Check our Wiki Pages including a simple Getting Started Tutorial.

Research

Before starting wysihtml5 we spent a lot of time investigating the different browsers and their behaviors.

Check this repository:
https://github.com/tiff/wysihtml5-tests

A compatibility table for rich text query commands can be found here:
http://tifftiff.de/contenteditable/compliance_test.html

A pure native rich text editor with HTML validator and live source preview is here:
http://tifftiff.de/contenteditable/editor.html

Contributors

• @tiff
• @ingochao
• @uwe