34 Online & Web Browser Based Free HTML Editors

Online or web based HTML Editors, WYSIWYG Editors, Richtext Editors comes handy when you don’t want to install separate applications to create, edit or publish HTML pages to your web site of content management systems. Most of the available browser based or online HTML editors are being used by CMS [ Content management Systems ], which enables them to have their own editor, thus eliminating the process of otherwise creating, editing, copying, pasting or saving and loading these files into those systems.

There are a lot of free online editors as well as some downloadable browser based HTML Editors. Most of them provides you with a WYSIWYG [ What You See Is What You Get ] feeling, while some are simple editors that need you to type in the HTML tags manually.

We will look into a list of Online HTML Editors and browser based free downloadable HTML Editors in this post.

1. TextArea Rich : Text Area Rich comes with a configuration file which you simply work through to change the way TAR works and looks.
   
2. Web Wiz Rich Text Editor : Web Wiz Rich Text Editor is a powerful WYSIWYG HTML Editor that can turn your sites textarea’s into HTMLarea’s with just 4 lines of code!! Have a look below to see just a few of the over 100 features available.
   
3. wysiwyg Flash Based Editor : Use this FREE Flash-based HTML editor to quickly generate some simple HTML code for your website. Type your content inside the form and select the”HTML” button to copy and paste the code in to your web site.
   
4. Online HTML (WYSIWYG) Web Page Editor : This free online HTML (WYSIWYG) web page maker allows you to design your own web page without installing any software on your computer.
   
5. Online-HTML-Editor : With this free Online HTML Editor you can edit any HTML document from your computer directly online.
   
6. Square Free : Type HTML in the textarea above, and it will magically appear in the frame below.
   
7. FCK Editor : This HTML text editor brings to the web much of the power of desktop editors like MS Word. It’s lightweight and doesn’t require any kind of installation on the client computer.
   
8. HTML Area : HTML editor that works in your browser.
   
9. Online Editor : An online HTML editor that allows you create web pages without knowing how to code HTML!
   
10. ezHTMLArea : Create/edit HTML content from your browser! No programming necessary. Works only on Internet Explorer
    
11. Online HTML Editor : Here you can write and see HTML in action.
    
12. TinyMCE : TinyMCE is a 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. TinyMCE is very easy to integrate into other Content Management Systems.
    
13. NicEdit : NicEdit is a Lightweight, Cross Platform, Inline Content Editor to allow easy editing of web site content on the fly in the browser.
    
14. OpenWebware Editor : The ultimate WYSIWYG editor for your web-based applications and forms.
    
15. WMD Editor : WMD is a simple, lightweight HTML editor for blog comments, forum posts, and basic content management. You can add WMD to any textarea with one line of code. Add live preview with one line more. WMD works in nearly all modern browsers, and is now completely free to use. The next release will be open source under an MIT-style license.
    
16. SPAW Editor : SPAW Editor is a web based in-browser WYSIWYG editor control enabling web site developers to replace a standard textarea html control with full-featured, fully customizable, multilingual, skinable web based WYSIWYG editor.
    
17. Simple Online Editor : Online HTML Editor – A simple online HTML editor
    
18. Free Online HTML Editor : Free Online WYSIWYG HTML Editor
    
19. CuteEditor.Net : CuteEditor.net – Cute Editor for ASP.NET is by far the fastest, easiest, most powerful WYSIWYG browser-based Online HTML Editor for ASP.NET. It also available for PHP and ASP. It enables ASP.NET Web developers to replace the Textarea in your existing content management system with a powerful, but easy to use WYSIWYG HTML editing component.
    
20. Xstandard WYSIWYG Editor : XStandard is the leading standards-compliant WYSIWYG editor for desktop applications and Web-based content management systems.
    
21. Bespin From Mozilla Labs : Bespin is a Mozilla Labs experiment on how to build an extensible Web code editor using HTML 5 technology.
    
22. MarkItUp! : markItUp! is a JavaScript plugin built on the jQuery library. It allows you to turn any textarea into a markup editor. Html, Textile, Wiki Syntax, Markdown, BBcode or even your own Markup system can be easily implemented.
    
23. BlueShoes Browser Based Editor : Browser-based wysiwyg editor, html editor and text editor. Using JavaScript and DHTML, no java or plugin needed.
    
24. TTW HTML Editor : TTW HTML Editor Interface – This”through the web” WYSIWYG editor works with Gecko engine web browsers (Mozilla, Netscape, FireFox, etc.) as well as with MSIE 5+. Includes OO Javascript and HTML code.
    
25. FreeTextBox : FreeTextBox is the most-used HTML editor for ASP.NET. It is compatible with IE on the PC, and Mozilla and Firefox on all platforms.
    
26. Free Rich Text Editor : Free Rich Text Editor is an extremely easy to use FREE javascript based HTML WYSIWYG editor for your website, it can easily be implemented into any existing content management system or other web application with no knowledge required in programming or javascript.
    
27. Xinha : Xinha (pronounced like Xena, the Warrior Princess) is a powerful WYSIWYG HTML editor component that works in all current browsers. Its configurabilty and extensibility make it easy to build just the right editor for multiple purposes, from a restricted mini-editor for one database field to a full-fledged website editor.
    
28. WYMEditor : WYMeditor is a web-based WYSIWYM (What You See Is What You Mean) XHTML editor (not WYSIWYG).
    
29. Yahoo UI Rich Text Editor : The Rich Text Editor is a UI control that replaces a standard HTML textarea; it allows for the rich formatting of text content, including common structural treatments like lists, formatting treatments like bold and italic text, and drag-and-drop inclusion and sizing of images.
    
30. Try It Yourself Editor : Simple Try It yourself editor from w3schools
    
31. Rich Area HTML Editor : Cross-Browser, Cross-Platform (MSIE5.0+ for Windows, Netscape 7.1/Mozilla 1.4+/Firefox 0.9+, Opera 9+, Safari 3.0+new!) with 100% DHTML, JavaScript and PHP/ASP code and No slow Java applets or ActiveX components, no plugins required.
    
32. Tutorials Point Simple HTML Editor : Edit HTML, CSS or Java Script Code in left box and click Show Results button.
    
33. NextEdit : NextEdit – Online Website Editor is a next generation web based html editor that makes editing of websites easily and quickly. Need to create an account to access this.
    
34. Webessence Cross Browser Rich Text Editor - New : Just another rich text editor. Some features: easy to use and customize (toolbaritems, css styles, classes, valid XHTML check), clean (X)HTML, contextmenu for table and attributes editing. Tested in Firefox 3, IE 7 and 8, Opera 9, Chrome 2 and Safari 4.