ASP compatible WYSIWYG Text Editor

[Sphexi]

What I'm looking for is something pretty much like you see here on Anandtech when creating a post. Not quite as robust, as all we need is text formatting, and we'll filter out everything else (it's for product description fields, no links or special code needed or allowed).

I've had a bit of a difficult time knowing what to look for, to see if there's any js versions of this out there, or an ASP control of some sort, some example that we could look to as far as designing our own, or even purchasing something we could integrate.

Any ideas?

 

[Snapster]

If you're looking at classic ASP then you can look at pretty much any JS WYSIWYG editor out there.

It does sound like you are after ASP.NET controls though, so you can look for something like fckeditor, timyMCE, FreeTextBox etc which do have versions which are wrapped up into controls for you to use in your codebehind.

 

[Sphexi]

If you're looking at classic ASP then you can look at pretty much any JS WYSIWYG editor out there.

It does sound like you are after ASP.NET controls though, so you can look for something like fckeditor, timyMCE, FreeTextBox etc which do have versions which are wrapped up into controls for you to use in your codebehind.

Do I have the right term for it though? WYSIWYG text editor? I wasn't even sure what to really call it, so I was having trouble Googling it.

I'll look into the ones you mentioned, we're currently ASP classic based, but have several high end .NET developers who are slowly moving portions of our site/system over. The service in question is quite old though, I think it's actually a lot of Java, but any suggestions help 🙂

Thanks!

 

[Snapster]

If you want to capture any formatting like bold text, italic etc then you are looking for a WYSIWYG editor. If it's just plain text you should just use a normal html textarea and just strip out anything you don't want saved to db.