How to make rich text editor

[impact]

Hello,

In my site, I am planing to have a user comment and for this I want to make text box with all those features that we see in blogger.com or in Gmail's email body. Such as bold, changing font family, text size, underline etc etc.

Unfortunately, I have no idea how to go about this. Any help will be appreciated.

Thank you

[dreamcatcher]

Hi impact,

You don`t need to make something like this. No point re-inventing the wheel as there are many free rich text editors available for you to use.

Try a search on Google.

dc

[zandebar]

Try FCK Editor Or tinyMCE give googlr a blast for the rest

[impact]

Thanks for the info

[coopster]

Rich text editors (RTE) have come a long way and there are quite a few to choose from nowadays. If you ever want to see one in it's simplest form, check out the Mozilla midas demo [mozilla.org] from way back.

[Lovejoy]

Pay him lots of money? Tata boom!

[explorador]

Nice advice, many RTEs are available nowadays, just choose the right one depending on your needs.

I developed a project with a nice RTE only to find out you cannot change the content on the fly once the page was loaded so I had to rewrite code to make it work with another RTE. There are ajax compatible and some are not. So check first depending on your needs (inserting youtube, flash, uploading images on the fly, etc).