Supported Editors Matrix

Wysiwyg offers out of the box support for the following rich text editors: CKEditor, EpicEditor, FCKeditor, jWYSIWYG, markItUp, NicEdit, TinyMCE, Whizzywig and WYMeditor.

All of the rich text editors currently supported by WYSIWYG are unmaintained/obsolete as of 2024-08-28. Contribute to adding support for CKEditor 5 [Issue #3123281] or TinyMCE 6 [Issue #3413569].

Alternatively consider the CKEditor 4 LTS or Editor modules.

Supported Editors

The chart below outlines the current state of editor support as of 2024-08-28:

Editor Information

CKeditor

The successor to FCKeditor, distributed under the same licenses.

Drupal 8+ includes the Editor module (inspired by WYSIWYG) and ships with CKEditor out of the box.

* Note if you are using CKEditor make sure you install the full package as not all plugins work with the standard package. If you prefer to stick to the latest release that has been tested with Wysiwyg, there is a problem that the CKEditor site does not (as far as I can see) offer the full package of an older release. You could try this pattern http://download.cksource.com/CKEditor/CKEditor/CKEditor%20VERSION/ckeditor_VERSION_full.zip (VERSION= e.g. 4.6.1) or the CKEditor GitHub project release page for an archive of older full releases.

FCKeditor

CKEditor's predecessor. Distributed under the GPL, LGPL and MPL open source licenses. No longer developed.

jWYSIWYG

GPL 2 license. This plugin is an inline content editor to allow editing rich HTML content on the fly. It's an alternative to WYMeditor with much less features. With a small file size less than 26Kb total and only 18Kb of code and 7Kb packed, the main concept is to keep it simple, not all users need font coloring or create tables, just the basic. No longer developed.

markItUp

markItUp is a jQuery plugin and the Packed naked engine is only 6.5KB. Licence: MIT/GPL. Supported browsers: IE7, Safari 3.1, Firefox 2, Firefox 3. IE6 and Opera 9+ as-is. No longer developed.

NicEdit

MIT License. No longer developed.

TinyMCE

LGPL. Their file and image management addons cost money. Use Wysiwyg image uploader or IMCE. TinyMCE competes with CKEditor for the most buttons on the toolbar. No longer developed.

WYMeditor

For the XML puritans. No fonts or anything. You define the CSS then your editors use your classes. Development moved to Github, the old website appears to no longer be maintained. No longer developed.

Image Handling

Media

The Media module has a WYSIWYG submodule which offers a plugin for adding a "Media" button and embedding documents/photos into the editor from any of its media sources (upload, library, web link, etc). Currently only known to support CKEditor and TinyMCE.

IMCE Wysiwyg bridge

IMCE can connect to Wysiwyg through IMCE Wysiwyg bridge. IMCE Wysiwyg bridge works only with TinyMCE, FCKeditor, and CKeditor.

Insert

Insert works by leveraging an Image Field. It also offers Image Styles integration.