HTMLArea — the FREE
customizable online editor

 <HTMLAREA> is a free, customizable online editor. It works inside your browser. It uses a non-standard feature implemented in Internet Explorer 5.5 or better for Windows, and Mozilla 1.3 or better (any platform), therefore it will work in any one of these, or any newer browser.

HTMLArea is © Copyright 2005-2013 Inferior Products Corporation,
2003-2005 InteractiveTools.com, and Dynarch.com. Released under a BSD-style license.

 HTMLArea was originally created and developed (through version 2.03), by InteractiveTools.com. Version 3.0 was developed by Mihai Bazon (http://dynarch.com/mishoo/) for InteractiveTools.
It is now developed and maintained by the developers at Inferior Products. It contains code previously sponsored by third-party companies as well. See the About Box for details.

Online demos

Some aditional demos:

• xHTMLArea standard — contains the core editor.
• xHTMLArea + tables — loads the TableOperations plugin which provides some extra editing features for tables.
• xHTMLArea + spell checher — loads the SpellChecker plugin which provides just that — a spell checker.  ;–)
  This one requires additional support on the server-side.
• xHTMLArea Full HTML Editor — loads the FullPage plugin which allows you to edit a full HTML page, including <title>, <!DOCTYPE...> and some other options.
• xHTMLArea with Context Menu — this plugin provides a nice context menu.
• xHTMLArea fully loaded — ALL of the above!

Installation

Installation is (should) be simple. You'll need to unpack the archive into a directory accessible through your webserver. Assuming you unpack it into your DocumentRoot and your DocumentRoot is /usr/local/www (as is standard on a *BSD installation), you'll need to acomplish the following steps: (the example applies to any Unix-like operating system)

cd /path/to/HTMLArea-4.0-20130729.tar.gz tar -xvzf ./HTMLArea-4.0-20130729.tar.gz mv ./HTMLArea-4.0-20130729 ./htmlarea find htmlarea/ -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \; find htmlarea/ -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \; find htmlarea/ -name "*.cgi" -exec chmod 755 {} \;

NOTE: You may choose to symlink htmlarea to HTMLArea-4.0-20130729, in which case your server needs to be configured to FollowSymLinks. You need to make sure that *.cgi files are interpreted as CGI scripts. If you want to use the SpellChecker plugin you need to have a recent version of Perl installed ( version 5.8, or greater recommended) on the server, and the module Text::Aspell, available from CPAN. More info in plugins/SpellChecker/readme-tech.html.

Information for seting up your pages to use the editor can be found in the documentation [updated version].

Status and links

We have a project page at SourceForge.net. We also have a bug system, a patch tracking system and a feature request page.

We also invite you to say anything you'd like about HTMLArea on the forums, where you will also find the latest news.

It doesn't work, what's wrong?

If it doesn't work, you have several options:

• Post a message in the forum. Describe your problem in as much detail as possible. Include errors you might have found in the JavaScript console (if you are a Mozilla user), or errors displayed by IE (though they're most of the times useless).
• If you're positive that you discovered a bug in HTMLArea, then feel free to file a bug report in our bug system. If you have the time you should check to see if a similar bug was reported or not; it might be fixed already in the CVS. If you're positive that a similar bug was not yet reported, do fill a bug report, and please include as much detail as possible, such as your browser, OS, errors from JavaScript console, etc.
• If you want a new feature to be implemented, post it in features request, and someone will hopefully take care of it.