Review of Drupal rich text editors
There are a huge number of rich text editors available for content management systems, which allow end users to conveniently edit web pages without knowing any markup (HTML). Most of those available are so-called WYSIWYG editors, where content looks similar in the editor to how it will look on the web page when published. These editors vary considerably in features and complexity but most suffer from the following main problems:
- They generate markup that doesn’t validate according to W3C specifications.
- They allow the creation of content that will fail WAI accessibility guidelines.
- They use inline styling, which makes it practically impossible to restyle the content via CSS.
This article reviews all editors that are available for Drupal via it’s WYSIWYG module, in order to narrow down on the editors that are best for producing valid markup with good accessibility and ideally no inline styling.
Posted by Stephan on 09 Aug 2010.