Best Rich Text Editors Yii Framework Extensions for Web Projects

1. TinyMCE
   This extension draws a TinyMCE HTML editor using a jQuery plugin. TinyMCE is a platform independent web based Javascript HTML WYSIWYG editor control released as Open Source under LGPL by Moxiecode Systems AB.
   
   TinyMCE has the ability to convert HTML TEXTAREA fields or other HTML elements to editor instances.
   
   
   Download - http://www.yiiframework.com/extension/tinymce
   Demo - http://www.tinymce.com/tryit/full.php
2. CKEditor
   CKEditor is a text editor to be used inside web pages. It's a WYSIWYG editor, which means that the text being edited on it looks as similar as possible to the results users have when publishing it. It brings to the web common editing features found on desktop editing applications like Microsoft Word and OpenOffice.
   
   Because CKEditor is licensed under flexible Open Source and commercial licenses, you'll be able to integrate and use it inside any kind of application. This is the ideal editor for developers intending to provide easy and powerful solutions to their users.
   
   CKEditor provides all features and benefits users and developers expect having on modern web applications. Its amazing performance keep users focused on the things to be done. You will find all common features available on text editors, as well as additional components specially designed for web contents.
   
   If you think the default features are not enough, CKEditor provides a strong and rich JavaScript API, making it possible to extend it to fit all needs. You can even consider that it has too much features, and removing them is even easier.
   Fully compatible
   
   One of the strongest features in CKEditor is its almost unlimited compatibility. It's a JavaScript application, so it simply works with all server technologies, just like a simple textarea. In the browser side instead, it has been developed to be compatible with the browsers that dominate the market, namely Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari and Opera. Even the old Internet Explorer 6 is compatible with.
   
   
   Download - http://www.yiiframework.com/extension/ckeditor
   Demo - http://ckeditor.com/demo
3. NicEdit
   NicEdit is a WYSIWYG editor for websites. Its goal is to be as simple and fast as possible for users of your application. NicEdit is extremely lightweight and can be easily integrated in any site with minimal impact while providing visitors an effective means to express themselves in rich text.
   
   
   Download - http://www.yiiframework.com/extension/niceditor
   Demo - http://nicedit.com/demos.php
4. CLEditor
   CLEditor is an open source jQuery plugin which provides a lightweight, full featured, cross browser, extensible, WYSIWYG HTML editor that can be easily added into any web site.
   
   In addition to the standard text formatting features found in other WYSIWYG editors, CLEditor also contains rich drop downs for font name, size, style, text color and highlight color. CLEditor allows you to insert images, hyperlinks and horizontal rules.
   
   
   Download - http://www.yiiframework.com/extension/cleditor
   Demo - http://premiumsoftware.net/cleditor/
5. WYMeditor
   EWYMeditor is a wrapper for WYMeditor which is a web-based WYSIWYM (What You See Is What You Mean) XHTML editor (not WYSIWYG).
   
   WYMeditor's main concept is to leave details of the document's visual layout, and to concentrate on its structure and meaning, while trying to give the user as much comfort as possible (at least as WYSIWYG editors).
   
   WYMeditor has been created to generate perfectly structured XHTML strict code, to conform to the W3C XHTML specifications and to facilitate further processing by modern applications.
   
   With WYMeditor, the code can't be contaminated by visual informations like font styles and weights, borders, colors, etc. The end-user defines content meaning, which will determine its aspect by the use of style sheets. The result is easy and quick maintenance of information.
   
   As the code is compliant to W3C XHTML specifications, you can for example process it using a XSLT (at the client or the server side), giving you a wide range of applications.
   
   
   Download - http://www.yiiframework.com/extension/ewymeditor
   Demo - http://wymeditor.no.de/wymeditor/examples/
6. JMarkItUp
   JMarkItUp is a set of widgets (for Html, Textile, Wiki, Markdown, BBcode, Texy) that encapsulates the markItUp Content Editor (version 1.1.10).
   
   markItUp! is a content editor plugin based on jQuery. It's not a WYSIWYG editor. Instead, it provides a lightweight, easy-to-use set of buttons, keyboard shortcuts, and other tools to add markup to your content.
   
   markItUp! is a JavaScript plugin built on the jQuery library. It allows you to turn any textarea into a markup editor. Html, Textile, Wiki Syntax, Markdown, BBcode or even your own Markup system can be easily implemented.
   
   markItUp! is not meant to be a “Full-Features-Out-of-the-Box”-editor. Instead it is a very lightweight, customizable and flexible engine made to meet the developer's needs in their CMSes, blogs, forums or websites. markItUp! is not a WYSIWYG editor, and it never will be.
   
   
   Download - http://www.yiiframework.com/extension/jmarkitup
   Demo - http://markitup.jaysalvat.com/examples/