HTML Editing
External Information
General infos
Browsers
Mozilla ("Midas")
IE ("HTML Edit")
Opera
Safari
Compatibility
- The Mozile project contains code which adapts Internet Explorer’s Selection object to an interface like Mozilla’s.
General
Overview of exisiting WYSIWYG editors
| Editor | License | Pro/Con |
|---|---|---|
| Xinha | HTMLArea (BSD based) | |
| RTE | Creative Commons | |
| RTEF | MIT | Pro works with all well-known browsers ( IE / Gecko / Opera / Safari / Konquerer ) Con no user-feedback e.g. which font or size is currently used |
| WYMEditor | MIT/GPL | Pro produces XHTML, uses CSS Con currently only available for IE and Gecko |
| dojo | BSD | |
| TinyMCE | LGPL | |
| FCKEdit | GPL, LGPL and MPL | |
| Solmetra | GPL | |
| FreeRTE | Creative Commons | |
| CMSimple | AGPL | |
| XStandard lite | Freeware | |
| Loki | GPL | |
| Whizzywig | - |
Browser-specific overview of "execCommand"
| command | Mozilla | IE | Opera | Safari |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bold | X | X | X | X |
| Italic | X | X | X | X |
| Underline | X | X | X | X |
| Strikethrough | X | X | X | X |
| Color | ||||
| BackColor | X | X | X | X |
| ForeColor | X | X | X | X |
| HiliteColor | X | - | - | X |
| Font Handling | ||||
| FontName | X | X | X | X |
| FontSize | X | X | X | X |
| IncreaseFontSize | X | - | X | - |
| DecreaseFontSize | X | - | X | - |
| Subscript | X | X | X | X |
| Superscript | X | X | X | X |
| Formatting and CSS | ||||
| ContentReadOnly | X | - | X | - |
| StyleWidthCSS | X | - | - | - |
| UseCSS | X | - | X | - |
| RemoveFormat | X | X | X | X |
| User actions | ||||
| Copy | X | X | - | X |
| Paste | X | X | - | X |
| Cut | X | X | X | X |
| Delete | X | X | X | X |
| Undo | - | X | X | X |
| Redo | - | X | X | X |
| - | X | - | X | |
| SaveAs | - | X | - | - |
| Alignment | ||||
| JustifyLeft | X | X | X | X |
| JustifyCenter | X | X | X | X |
| JustifyRight | X | X | X | X |
| JustifyFull | X | - | X | X |
| Indent | X | X | - | X |
| Outdent | X | X | - | X |
| Hyperlinks | ||||
| CreateLink | X | X | X | X |
| Unlink | X | X | X | X |
| Lists | ||||
| InsertOrderedList | X | X | X | X |
| InsertUnorderedList | X | X | X | X |
| Basic (formatting) elements | ||||
| FormatBlock | X | X | X | X |
| Heading | X | - | - | - |
| InsertParagraph | X | X | X | X |
| InsertImage | X | X | X | X |
| InsertButton | - | X | - | - |
| InsertFieldset | - | X | - | - |
| InsertHorizontalRule | - | X | X | X |
| InsertHTML | X | - | X | X |
| InsertIFrame | - | X | - | - |
| Form elements | ||||
| InsertInputButton | - | X | - | - |
| InsertInputCheckbox | - | X | - | - |
| InsertInputFileUpload | - | X | - | - |
| InsertInputHidden | - | X | - | - |
| InsertInputImage | - | X | - | - |
| InsertInputPassword | - | X | - | - |
| InsertInputRadio | - | X | - | - |
| InsertInputReset | - | X | - | - |
| InsertInputSubmit | - | X | - | - |
| InsertInputText | - | X | - | - |
| InsertSelectDropdown | - | X | - | - |
| InsertSelectListbox | - | X | - | - |
| InsertTextArea | - | X | - | - |
| InsertMarquee | - | X | - | - |
| Bookmarking | ||||
| CreateBookmark | - | X | - | - |
| UnBookmark | - | X | - | - |
| Selection and status handling | ||||
| SelectAll | X | X | X | X |
| Unselect | - | X | X | X |
| MultipleSelection | - | X | - | - |
| Overwrite | - | X | - | - |
| Refresh | - | X | - | - |
| Misc | ||||
| 2D-Position | - | X | - | - |
| AbsolutePosition | - | X | - | - |
| LiveResize | - | X | - | - |
| gethtml | X | - | - | - |
| contentReadOnly | X | - | - | - |
| insertBrOnReturn | X | - | - | - |
| enableObjectResizing | X | - | - | - |
| enableInlineTableEditing | X | - | - | - |
