---
title: "14 Best Open Source WYSIWYG HTML Editors"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/14-best-open-source-wysiwyg-html-editors-a-wwyylkm
source_url: https://itsfoss.com/open-source-wysiwyg-editors/
type: article
source: "It's Foss"
author: "Abhishek Prakash"
published: 2022-10-14T06:22:17.113Z
updated: 2022-10-14T06:22:17.045Z
tags: ["github", "open-source", "markdown"]
reading_time: 7
upvotes: 78
comments: 4
language: en
---

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# 14 Best Open Source WYSIWYG HTML Editors

**[It's Foss](https://daily.dev/sources/itsfoss)** · [@abhishek_foss](https://daily.dev/abhishek_foss) · 7 min read · 78 upvotes · 4 comments

## Summary

Open-source WYSIWYG editor will help provide a secure, modern, and scalable experience. The editor's free edition should provide basic editing capabilities if you do not need an enterprise-grade offering. If you need professional help, you can contact them for paid options. Trix is a respectable project that lets tinkerers try something different for their website or app. You can also explore more on its GitHub page for more info.

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## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@lexlohr** · 2 upvotes

> Lexical is missing in that list. It is modern, modular, composable and framework-agnostic, supports mobile browsers (many editors work miserably on cellphones).

**@nelcapetown** · 2 upvotes

> I'm sure this comment really shows my age, but many years ago I used Microsoft FrontPage to design a website.  When I looked at the generated code, it was so wasteful that I vowed to write it by hand from then on.
>
> If you applied "bold text" to a substring it would put the expected <bold>YourBoldTextHere</bold> tags around it.  If you later decided that you'd rather not have it in bold, it would change your HTML into:
> <bold></bold>YourNoLongerBoldTextHere<bold></bold>
>
> If you were playing around with design (I'm a good developer but a below average graphic designer,) Your source would have so...

**@d4nm0** · 0 upvotes

> I use ckeditor which I integrated in my application and it works extremely well. I even develop plugins to add custom buttons. the only problem is that if the text is several hundred lines long there is latency

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