Recommended WYSIWYG modules?

lsloan - November 15, 2006 - 22:28

I'm setting up a new web site using Drupal. I was wondering which WYSIWYG content editor module folks would recommend. I've seen the "Htmlarea" and "TinyMCE WYSIWYG Editor" modules. Which of those is recommended most? (Hope I'm not stirring up a political debate!) Or Is there some other WYSIWYG module I should try?

I'm hoping for one that will work well with Gallery2 embedded in Drupal using the "Gallery" module. (Actually, I've not got that working correctly yet, but I hope to soon.)

FCK Editor is a nice

VM - November 15, 2006 - 22:31

FCK Editor is a nice addition. It's dev is fast to respond as well, which is always of benefit.

Htmlarea OK, FCKeditor or TinyMCE look better

lsloan - November 16, 2006 - 14:40

OK, I'll give FCKeditor a try, too. I didn't notice it at first because I searched for editor modules that mention "WYSIWYG". (Somebody might want to add that to FCKeditor's description.)

So far, I've tried Htmlarea. It works, but it has its quirks. I suppose all the WYSIWYG editors do. I was disappointed that it wasn't easy for me to change the background color of a table cell. I ended up editing the source HTML. I liked Htmlarea's ability to strip MS Word crap from the HTML.

Since then, I've looked at the live demo of FCKeditor. It's better than Htmlarea in a lot of ways. Working with a table was easier. The ability to hide the toolbar is nice. I looked for a help button (It's a little tedious to hover the mouse over every button to see the tooltips.) and found that it's just an "about" box, but it had some nice browser info, useful for debugging. The templates feature looks useful. The international keyboard feature would be nice if it supported Korean. (The person I'm putting this Drupal site together for can speak and write Korean.)

I've also looked at the live demo of TinyMCE. It's dialog boxes for creating tables, etc, look nicer. I like the ability to resize the editing area in addition to fullscreen mode (which all three do). Overall, TinyMCE looks the most polished.

I agree tinymce is the most

VM - November 16, 2006 - 17:31

I agree tinymce is the most polished. however there are quite a few issues that need to be worked out even on the demo site. for one the spellchecker doesnt completely work. to allow users to use it you must use an empty input filter so on so forth.

I switched from tinymce to fckeditor for one reason. The developer is active here in this community and is constantly working to improve the editor and provide feeback. I reported 5 issues in TinyMCE and all of them went unanswered.

FCK is more client friendly

AdAstra - December 9, 2006 - 04:06

I started with TinyMCE, but it generated excess (garbage) code. And it didn't offer easy access to a drop down menu for h1, h2, h3... styles.

I switched to FCK editor, and it looks just like Word. The code that it creates is clean, using "strong", "em", "ul", "li" and <br />.

Especially when setting up a CMS for clients, FCK comes in really handy, since it looks like a commonly used Word processing toolbar, which most people have seen/used. So when the web contract is over, it'll allow clients easier content creation interface, imho.

Two thumbs up for FCK :)

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Unfortunately not all

ontwerpwerk - December 21, 2006 - 21:43

Unfortunately not all browsers generate the same code in FCKeditor - the code is relatively clean, but sometimes <strong> will be inserted as <span style="font-weight: bold;">. This is a (known) limitation for FCKeditor, so if you really need the superclean code, then raw html editing might be a better solution.

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Good idea about adding the

ontwerpwerk - December 21, 2006 - 21:39

Good idea about adding the WYSIWYG to the project description :)

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