RichText WYSIWYG editor without interface (JavaScript API only)

Question

I am looking for a very clean project to add a cross-browser JavaScript API to the content div.

If it has a user interface, then you can not download it (as opposed to disabling it) or completely remove it from sources.

I am looking for the main functions without really paying much attention to backward compatibility, but rather to cleaner codes.

Some of the functions that I would expect from this API would be as follows:

• Insert HTML snippet at cursor position
• Clear content after pasting (e.g. font sizes and sizes)
• Returns the node where the cursor is currently located
• Add a new item to the product list

I suppose I could encode them using jQuery, but if anyone has this, why not reuse it.

Answer 1

You can use one use of Google -

http://closure-library.googlecode.com/svn/docs/namespace_goog_editor.html

http://closure-library.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/closure/goog/demos/editor/field_basic.html

If your concern for cleaner code is maintainability / extensibility, then all the code in the Closure library is well documented, and all variables / methods are detailed in their name (this is because the Closure compiler will take care of minimizing it for the client).

Answer 2

In CKEditor, the user interface and themes are defined as plugins, not part of the kernel, so if you have enough patience, you can override them any way you want.

Answer 3

Quill seems to be gaining good traction - https://github.com/quilljs/quill

Answer 4

Look at this, it seems appropriate: http://www.artlebedev.ru/tools/reformator/

Source code: http://web.artlebedev.ru/tools/reformator/reformator.zip

PS. It is available for non-commercial use only.

Answer 5

TinyMice is also a good choice. It has jQuery API

Answer 6

What about WYMEditor?

• http://www.wymeditor.org/
• https://github.com/wymeditor/wymeditor
• http://files.wymeditor.org/wymeditor/trunk/src/examples/12-custom-layout.html
• http://files.wymeditor.org/wymeditor/trunk/src/examples/