WYMeditor

WYMeditor is an open source web-based WYSIWYM editor with semantics and standards in mind. The WYM-part stands for "What You Mean" compared to the more common "What You See Is What You Get".

Why WYMeditor?

WYMeditor is different from the traditional editors because we are 100% focused on providing a simple experience for users that separates the content of their document from the presentation of that document. We focus on enforcing web standards and separating a document's structure (HTML) from its presentation (CSS). Your users won't know and shouldn't care about HTML, but when they need consistent, standards-compliant, clean content, they'll thank you.

There are lots of choices when it comes to a brower-based editor and many of them are stable, mature projects with thousands of users. If you need an editor that gives total control and flexibility to the user (not you, the developer), then WYMeditor is probably not for you. If you want an editor that you can customize to provide the specific capabilities your users need, and you want users focused on the structure of their content instead of tweaking fonts and margins, you should give WYMeditor a try.

We also fully support internet explorer 6, for those poor souls who have no choice.

Try It

Want to see what WYMeditor can do? Try the WYMeditor examples right now.

These examples run the bleeding edge code and give you a good idea of what WYMeditor can do.

Quick Start

1. WYMeditor requies jQuery 1.2.6 or higher. First ensure that your page includes jQuery.

2. Download the Version 1.0.0b2 archive and extract the contents to a folder in your project.

3. Include the wymeditor/jquery.wymeditor.min.js file on your page. This file will pull in anything else that's required.

   <script type="text/javascript" src="/wymeditor/jquery.wymeditor.min.js"></script>

4. Now use the wymeditor() function to select one of your textarea elements and turn it in to a WYMeditor instance. eg. if you have a textarea with the class my-wymeditor:

   $('.my-wymeditor').wymeditor();

Note: You'll probably want to do this initialization inside a $(document).ready() block.

5. If you'd like to receive the valid HTML your editor produce on form submission, just add the class wymupdate to your submit button.

6. ???

7. Profit!

More examples with different plugins and configuration options can be found in your examples directory.

Compatibility

WYMeditor is compatible with:

• IE 6, 7, 8 and 9
• Firefox 3.6.x, 9.x and 10.x
• Opera 9.5+
• Safari 3.0+
• Google Chrome Stable and Beta

Contributing to WYMeditor

Documentation

We need a lot of help in the documentation department. We moved from the old trac repository earlier this year and still haven't ported over the relevant documentation. Porting that, fileing documentation tickets or even just asking questions on IRC at #wymeditor on freenode would be very helpful.

Testing WYMeditor

WYMeditor includes a full unit test suite to help us ensure that the editor works great across a variety of browsers. The test suite should pass in any of our supported browsers and if it doesn't, please file a bug so we can fix it!

To run the test suite.

1. Get a copy of the source using git:

   git clone git://github.com/wymeditor/wymeditor.git

2. Put your source behind some kind of web server (apache, nginx, etc). If you don't have one installed or don't want to fuss with configuration, you can use python's HTTP server:

   $ cd /path/to/my/wymeditor/src $ python -m SimpleHTTPServer

3. The unit test suite is located at src/test/unit/index.html, so if you used the python instructions, open up your browser to http://localhost:8000/test/unit/index.html.

All green means you're good to go.

4. Want to run the tests from the command line? You can do that to! Just install PhantomJS and then (if you used the http server from step 2) call:

   $ build/phantomjs_test.sh localhost:8000/test/unit

Building WYMeditor

1. Get a copy of the source using git:

   git clone git://github.com/wymeditor/wymeditor.git

2. Install make, Node.js and UglifyJS. To install UglifyJS using NPM run the following:

   npm install -g uglify-js

3. Run make from your git clone:

   $ cd wymeditor $ make

The results will appear in your dist directory.

Getting Help

• Wiki/Docs: https://github.com/wymeditor/wymeditor/wiki
• Forum: http://community.wymeditor.org
• Issue tracking: https://github.com/wymeditor/wymeditor/issues
• Official branch: https://github.com/wymeditor/wymeditor
• Continous Integration: http://jenkins.wymeditor.org

Read more on contributing.

Copyright

Copyright (c) 2005 - 2011 Jean-Francois Hovinne, Dual licensed under the MIT (MIT-license.txt) and GPL (GPL-license.txt) licenses.