WYSIWYG Editor of Choice?

[Nick Catto]

I've been using FckEditor with all of my Drupal sites for a couple years now with little problems, but integrating it into my Drupal 6 sites has been somewhat difficult. The main installation is simple and many of the configuration tweaks are appreciated, but configuring the editor for image uploads and file management still seems a little tough.

That said, which wysiwyg editor do you currently use for Drupal and why?

[Joe Eastham]

TinyMCE, mostly because I inherited it. I'm happy with it for the most part, but am struggling with the best method for encouraging editors to paste plain text rather than chaotic snips from Word docs and web pages. Both the simpletext and "paste as plain text" plugins just aren't cutting it.

[Russ Cobb]

same with the Wordpress TinyMCE editor. there's an option to copy from Word, but still it creates all sorts of ugly MS styles and is a nightmare to edit or insert/align a photo after. even worse: people pasting Excel spreadsheet into the editor. please let me know if you come up with a way to encourage (read: enforce) people not to paste rich text into TinyMCE.

[Mr.Eark]

In my opinion, if you follow the steps in README, you should config it very easy. Especially in drupal 6, you don't need to set any directory path in the configuration file because all information is in the administration page of fckeditor.

I still think fckeditor is the best editor for drupal system. It supports many kinds of objects (image, flash) including a file manager system with an upload feature and it has done very good job on the WYSIWYG editor aspect.

However, things that annoys me is when we save a page and come back to edit it again. Fckeditor always get rid of all white-space (which is not good for people who love to edit sourcecode again and again but all tags now stick together) and keep inserting <p> or <br> tag for all newline that I put in.

[Bryan Jordin]

We use TinyMCE. I would love to have some time to work on intergrating kupu in to Drupal.

[Nick Catto]

Shortly after posting this, I tried integrating FckEditor with IMCE and have been really impressed with the results. Before using IMCE, I used to need to edit the file manager settings in FckEditor, usually with mixed results. Adding IMCE is pretty straight forward and doesn't require too much customization. I also found a good video walk through.

[Bradley Livermore]

Still using the default that came with Drupal - which would be no editor.

Do these editors work well with CCK and only show for textareas?

[Lindsay Clark]

If you install WYSIWYG API, you can select if you want the editor to show for Filtered HTML, Full HTML, or both. If you have fields that are plain text, no HTML editor will show.

[John Bolles]

Using FCKEditor.

[Lindsay Clark]

Using FckEditor with WYSIWYG API.

Some college student did a comparison of different wysiwygs and the output. He had two metrics for measuring the validity of the HTML output, I forget exactly what they were. I believe FCK and whizzywig were the only two that passed both tests.