I’m looking for a good standards compliant Rich Text Editor to replace texareas in forms so that users can format text (bold, italic, etc.).

I work in an ASP environment with Dreamweaver, but these are not strict requirements.

A dreamweaver extension that is based on ASP, is standards compliant and is not branded would be ideal, but anything would be fine.

The most important requirement is that the product be standards compliant.

Have you considered WYSIWYG editors... there are alot of free ones our there..

Peace,

HTMLarea - there are a lot of modifications of it. :)

TinyMCE is another good one.

There is also FCKEditor, but i would go with TinyMCE because it supports Safari which is my default browser.

www.htmlarea.com (as VolkNet said) - you might want to try version HTMLArea version 2 instead of 3 since you mentioned only trivial tasks for text formatting (bold, italic etc).

I would suggest Xinha (hi gogocode) if you decide to use somewhat advanced editing options. Also, Xinha comes with many many plugins (opposed to HTMLArea which has been discontinued).

There is also KTML, editor from www.interakt.ro that integrates with DreamWeaver (meaning you specify it's configuration options via DW instead of tampering with various config files etc).

TinyMCE does not have image manager whereas FCKeditor does.

I still prefer to use TinyMCE because it is very easy to implement.

I don't know what your budget is but Interspire's DevEdit is very well built and feature rich but a bit pricey.

http://www.interspire.com/devedit/

http://www.xinha.org/

:-D

I'm trying out both TinyMCE and FCKeditor. I would prefer to use FCKeditor. However I'm completely new at this.

I can install the editor and can get to the screen where I can edit text. However could someone please, in simple terms, tell me how I can put the final edited text into another page to be viewed?

Thanks.

Im using FCKeditor and I havent found anything bad about it yet. So maybe try using that and see what you think, as you can always change in the future.

I'm using htmlarea too ... its faster than others.
You can check Spaw editor, nice one too.