HTML5 rich-text inside textarea

javascript html textarea syntax-highlighting rich-text-editor
Alex picture Alex · May 1, 2012 · Viewed 58.9k times · Source

I heard that the new HTML5 will add rich text capability to textareas (it will make them more flexible), so you can do stuff like code syntax highlighting editors without very nasty javascript (like creating iframes and stuff).

Is this true? Are there browsers with support for it yet? And where can I find some API?

Answer

DavidTaubmann picture DavidTaubmann · Jun 11, 2016

NO - jQuery

If what you where looking for (the same as me) is NO-jquery tools (pure HTML/CSS + basic JS), then some of the best options I found are:

  1. wysihtml5
  2. Squire
  3. ckeditor
  4. widgEditor

Nevertheless, those in the list above all convert the element (textarea) into an iframe, so they weren't exactly what I was searching for, finally I found this one which respects the original element (divs or so, but if you use textarea it does creates an additional div), allowing full straightforward JS app development:

  1. nicedit

Hope this helps you too!

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