elRTE is an open-source WYSIWYG HTML-editor written in JavaScript using jQuery UI.

It features rich text editing, options for changing its appearance, style and many more. You can use it in any commercial or non-commercial projects.

Main goal of the editor – simplify work with text and formating (HTML) on sites, blogs, forums and other online services. elRTE was developed for ELDORADO.CMS.

Here are some of the other features:

• Advanced work with CSS
  • Setting indentation (margins, paddings) for images and table cells (seperate for each direction)
  • Controlling border properties (width, style, color) with convenient dialogs
  • Writing element properties as CSS-style always when possible
• Lightweight, fast and easy to integrate
• Interface appearance is configured from one CSS file
• No templates used
• i18n. The editor can be easily localized into any language. Currently available in English (default), Russian, German and Ukrainian languages
• Designed to work with elFinder file manager, but can also be used with any other
• Flexible for extensions

Looks cool although I haven’t run across it in the wild. We all know that we are looking for something better than textareas:

meh meh meh

and something functional that isn’t as bloated (or broken) as some of the WYSIWYG’s out there.

Let us know what your initial reactions to elRTE are.