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.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Online

TinyMCE is described as 'Platform independent web based Javascript HTML WYSIWYG editor control released as Open Source under LGPL by Moxiecode Systems AB. It has the ability to convert HTML TEXTAREA fields or other HTML elements to editor instances' and is a popular Text Editor in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to TinyMCE for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, Self-Hosted, JavaScript, SaaS and Opera apps. The best TinyMCE alternative is CKEditor. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try CKEditor or Trumbowyg. Other great apps like TinyMCE are Quill, Tiptap, ProseMirror and ContentTools Editor.
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.

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CLEditor is lightweight, and works! Very easy to install.