best free rich text editors

Written by Markus Eisele
12:15
Found this post from Antonio Lupetti. He lists the rest Rich Text Editors ready to use in web projects with some comments and hints how to implement them on pages using a few lines of HTML code.
It seems too easy to use one of them within your software product. But, be aware of the license.


  1. Yahoo! UI Library: Rich Text Editor

  2. Offered under a BSD License

  3. Free Rich Text Editor

  4. Offered under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Generic license

  5. TinyMCE

  6. Offered under a LGPL license, also known as the GNU Lesser General Public License, former GNU Library Public License.

  7. FCKeditor

  8. Offered under the GPL, LGPL and MPL open source licenses but an Closed Distribution License - CDL is also available

  9. Xinha

  10. Offered under the original htmlarea licence, essentially this is a BSD style licence


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