Rich Text Editor on a web page

Question

I am trying to add a rich text editor in my web page where users can write reviews and format what they have written...something similar to the editor in which we write our posts on this site... can anyone point me to the right direction regarding this...any tutorial that would help me build such a component... Also i want a free product....(Forgot to mention earlier...)

Answer 1

I've been using the Telerik r.a.d Editor, and been very happy with it.

Answer 2

http://freetextbox.com/

Answer 3

here is yet another one: NicEdit

Answer 4

Something in the likes of TinyMCE or FCKeditor, perhaps.

They're quite complete, and customisable.

Answer 5

after much research here is what i did...

i needed a control that was free and easy to use..all the editors that i went through came with a licence so i decided to make my own control!!!!

well..i couldnt do that on my own so i used the help of a few sites....

javascript Rich Text Editors

http://aspalliance.com/1092_Rich_Text_Editor_Part_I

http://ws.aspalliance.com/1092_Rich_Text_Editor_Part_II and a few others too...

so the best option for me was to build my own control so that i could customize it according to my needs....

Answer 6

The editor used on Stack Overflow is the WMD Editor.

The current version used on the site has been updated by Jeff Attwood and other site users and you can read about it here and get a copy of the code for your own site.

I think you'd be better off using (and perhaps modifying) an existing component rather than writing your own from scratch.