Forum post editor

[zobayer1]

Hello, I am trying to create a mini-forum from scratch, obviously of educational purpose, I just don't want to go directly to something huge like phpbb or vbulletin, however, I used a simple text editor, but I am looking forward to use something more common, like the one ubuntuforums has, or as you have seen in some other phpbb forums.

Is it possible to use these html text editors / rich text editors ? Is there any free version? Can anyone please give me some link or some resource? I tried googling but "html post editor" is quite misleading for google I think.

Thank you.

[sanderd17]

There is a drupal module for that, maybe you can look at the source: http://drupal.org/project/wysiwyg

ps. wysiwyg is probably a better search term.

[amauk]

http://elrte.org/

[zobayer1]

There is a drupal module for that, maybe you can look at the source: http://drupal.org/project/wysiwyg

ps. wysiwyg is probably a better search term.

Thank you for the lead.
btw, As I have mentioned, the site is scratch built, no cms used, so I hope it is possible to deploy wysiwyg in plain html?

[zobayer1]

http://elrte.org/

Thanks man, I think that will do

[zobayer1]

Although elRTE is awesome, eventually I've found TinyMCE more handy. Easy to customize and manipulate.

Home page: http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/

[BkkBonanza]

Another one that I've used quite successfully was Xinha. It's been a few years but I think they are still updating it. I tried a whole bunch before settling on this one and though I don't recall details now it seemed the best back then.

[Petrolea]

Although elRTE is awesome, eventually I've found TinyMCE more handy. Easy to customize and manipulate.

Home page: http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/

I would also recommend this one. It's easy to use and has all the common features included.

[John Krow]

I was just looking at tinyMCE, and I have an offhand question. Was gonna start a thread but I guess it fits here. The latest version of tinyMCE has support for HTML5, going by recent changelogs. How advanced is HTML5 support in tinyMCE 3.2.7-1, which is the version in my current enabled Ubuntu repositories on Lucid Lynx.

Anyone know? Without digging through the website?