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# HTML Editing In General

## External Information

### General infos

- Rich HTML editing - Part 1

### Browsers

#### Mozilla ("Midas")

- Midas specification
- Demo
- Migrationguide IE -> Gecko
- Documentation
- DOM Client Object Cross-Reference

#### IE ("HTML Edit")

- MSDN Overview and tutorials
- Documentation
- Overview of Command Identifiers
- A Note about the DHTML Editing Control in IE7+

#### Opera

- Opera Browser Wiki

#### Safari

- WebKit: HTML Editing
- Quietly, Safari Finally Gains WYSIWYG Editing Powers
- execCommand list

### Compatibility

- The Mozile project contains code which adapts Internet Explorer's Selection object to an interface like Mozilla's.
- Converting your app from IE to Midas
- execCommand compatibility

### General

- htmlarea.com
- cmsreview.com
- geniisoft.com
- Web-Based Rich Text Editors Compared

## Overview of existing WYSIWYG editors

Here is an overview table:

Editor | License | Pro/Con
--- | --- | ---
YUI RTE | BSD | Pro: works with all well-known browsers ( IE / Gecko / Opera / Safari / Konquerer ); Con: Still in Beta (although the final release version should be out soon).
Xinha | HTMLArea (BSD based) |
RTE | Creative Commons |
RTEF | MIT | Pro: works with all well-known browsers ( IE / Gecko / Opera / Safari / Konquerer ); Con: no user-feedback e.g. which font or size is currently used.
WYMEditor | MIT/GPL | Pro: produces XHTML, uses CSS; Con: currently only available for IE and Gecko.
dojo | BSD |
TinyMCE | LGPL |
FCKEdit | GPL, LGPL and MPL |
Solmetra | GPL |
FreeRTE | Creative Commons |
CMSimple | AGPL |
XStandard lite | Freeware |
Loki | GPL |
Whizzywig |  |

## Browser-specific overview of "execCommand"

command | Mozilla | IE | Opera | Safari
--- | --- | --- | --- | ---
Bold | x | x | x | x
Italic | x | x | x | x
Underline | x | x | x | x
Strikethrough | x | x | x | x
Color |  |  |  |
BackColor | x | x | x | x
ForeColor | x | x | x | x
HiliteColor | x |  |  | x
Font Handling |  |  |  |
FontName | x | x | x | x
FontSize | x | x | x | x
IncreaseFontSize | x |  | x |
DecreaseFontSize | x |  | x |
Subscript | x | x | x | x
Superscript | x | x | x | x
Formatting and CSS |  |  |  |
ContentReadOnly | x |  | x |
StyleWidthCSS | x |  |  |
UseCSS | x |  | x |
RemoveFormat | x | x | x | x
User actions |  |  |  |
Copy | x | x |  | x
Paste | x | x |  | x
Cut | x | x | x | x
Delete | x | x | x | x
Undo |  | x | x | x
Redo |  | x | x | x
Print |  | x |  | x
SaveAs |  | x |  |
Alignment |  |  |  |
JustifyLeft | x | x | x | x
JustifyCenter | x | x | x | x
JustifyRight | x | x | x | x
JustifyFull | x |  | x | x
Indent | x | x |  | x
Outdent | x | x |  | x
Hyperlinks |  |  |  |
CreateLink | x | x | x | x
Unlink | x | x | x | x
Lists |  |  |  |
InsertOrderedList | x | x | x | x
InsertUnorderedList | x | x | x | x
Basic (formatting) elements |  |  |  |
FormatBlock | x | x | x | x
Heading | x |  |  |
InsertParagraph | x | x | x | x
InsertImage | x | x | x | x
InsertButton |  | x |  |
InsertFieldset |  | x |  |
InsertHorizontalRule |  | x | x | x
InsertHTML | x |  | x | x
InsertIFrame |  | x |  |
Form elements |  |  |  |
InsertInputButton |  | x |  |
InsertInputCheckbox |  | x |  |
InsertInputFileUpload |  | x |  |
InsertInputHidden |  | x |  |
InsertInputImage |  | x |  |
InsertInputPassword |  | x |  |
InsertInputRadio |  | x |  |
InsertInputReset |  | x |  |
InsertInputSubmit |  | x |  |
InsertInputText |  | x |  |
InsertSelectDropdown |  | x |  |
InsertSelectListbox |  | x |  |
InsertTextArea |  | x |  |
InsertMarquee |  | x |  |
Bookmarking |  |  |  |
CreateBookmark |  | x |  |
UnBookmark |  | x |  |
Selection and status handling |  |  |  |
SelectAll | x | x | x | x
Unselect |  | x | x | x
MultipleSelection |  | x |  |
Overwrite |  | x |  |
Refresh |  | x |  |
Misc |  |  |  |
2D-Position |  | x |  |
AbsolutePosition |  | x |  |
LiveResize |  | x |  |
gethtml | x |  |  |
contentReadOnly | x |  |  |
insertBrOnReturn | x |  |  |
enableObjectResizing | x |  |  |
enableInlineTableEditing | x |  |  |