Rich Text Editor on a web page

Question

I am trying to add a rich text editor in my web page where users can write reviews and format what they have written...something similar to the editor in which we write our posts on this site... can anyone point me to the right direction regarding this...any tutorial that would help me build such a component... Also i want a free product....(Forgot to mention earlier...)

Answer 1

Something in the likes of TinyMCE or FCKeditor, perhaps.

They're quite complete, and customisable.

Answer 2

The editor used on Stack Overflow is the WMD Editor.

The current version used on the site has been updated by Jeff Attwood and other site users and you can read about it here and get a copy of the code for your own site.

I think you'd be better off using (and perhaps modifying) an existing component rather than writing your own from scratch.