Which editor to use for simple formatting

[Ubaidullah]

Hi,

I want to provide an input box where the user can write text and do basic markup like bold, color, etc.
I don't want to overwhelm the user with too many options.
I also want to be able to programmatically insert text in specific places so need to be able to handle the markup.

Which of the available editors (TinyMCE/Redactor/CKEdit/ACE) would be suitable for this task?

Thanks
&
Regards,
Ubaidullah Nubar.

[Bruce]

Redactor is likely a good choice. Or perhaps the "Basic" CK Editor.

Cheers
Bruce

[Ubaidullah]

Bruce, thanks for the reply.

Are there any plans to update redactor to redactor X or CKEditor to version 5?
TinyMCE seems to be v4 while the latest is v6.

The nice thing about redactor is that I can paste an image into the editor. But it replaces any other image pasted earlier as the image gets written to web\uploads as image.png and each paste overwrites the previous one.

[Bruce]

>> Are there any plans to update redactor to redactor X or CKEditor to version 5?

CK Editor 5 is not free, so I deliberately stopped at 4.
Redactor is shipped under an OEM license which I got from them (which allows you to use it for free).
It's also very not cheap. I'm not sure there's a need to update that at this time.

TinyMCE got impressively complicated to use, and understand, so I also stopped updating that.

Generally speaking the editors have a habit of breaking existing code when you update them. As i don't want to gratuitously break existing apps, I'm fairly cautious about upgrading the editors.

Of course nothing stops you implementing the editor of your choice. They're all just JavaScript plugins, so it's reasonably straight-forward to do - especially if you only have your own site to worry about.

Cheers
Bruce