I was searching for a fast loading and light-weight HTML editor which i can embed in place of <textarea>in my php or html code. I have used many popular open source editors like tinymce and other editors except it is very heavy code and i am not that satisfied with it. I just want bold, url, italic and image as functionality in my WYSIWYG based editor. Infact i dont like the popup html window for inserting a html link. Its annoying!

I managed to collect some of the light weight editors that can be embedded into various php scripts and supporting cross browser platforms. All are free and open source with the code less than 100kb.

widgEditor (free)
nicEditor (free)

OpenWebWare (free)

Hypertextarea (free)

rtwEdit (free)

Besides these, the following are some of the most popular editors, which i believe are little heavy.

TinyMCE (free)

Just download those files and include a reference to the javascript and the textarea will automatically convert to rich html editor.

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