Edit area

Here is EditArea, a free javascript editor for source code. (That is no way a WYSIWYG editor).
This editor is designed to edit souce code files in a textarea. The main goal is to allow text formatting, search and replace and real-time syntax highlight (for not too heavy text).

This editor is free and freely distributable (released under LGPL, Apche and BSD licenses). All I ask is that I receive credit for my work. I will also enjoy to receive mail to tell me if you 're using it, just in order to have an idea of how much this editor is used. ;-)

Main features:

• Easy to integrate, only one script include and one function call
• Tabulation support (allow to write well formated source code)
• Customizable real-time syntax highlighting (currently: PHP, CSS, Javascript, Python, HTML, XML, VB, C, CPP, SQL, Pascal, Basic, Brainf*ck, and probably more...)
• Word-wrap support
• Search and replace (with regexp)
• Auto-indenting new lines
• Line numerotation
• Multilanguage support (currently: Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Macedonian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, and probably more...)
• Possible PHP gzip compression (compress the 12 core files to one file of ~30Ko)
• Allow multiple instances
• Full screen mode
• Possible plugin integration
• Possible save and load callback functions
• Possible dynamic content management
• Can work in the same environment than "prototype" and "mootools"'s like libraries.

Current limitations:

• automatic focus on the textarea on page load.
• can be slow when editing huge files (javascript is not a fast language).
• only on syntax language at the same time (no html and php syntax highlight at the same time).

Example

Download

The current version is the 0.8.2, released on 2010-01-14. Go on sourceforge for EditArea 0.8.2 downloads.

You can see the change log here (txt file).

Compatibility

It works on IE 6 -> 8, Firefox 1.5 -> 3.5, Safari 3.1 -> 4, Opera 9 -> 10.1 and Chrome 1 -> 3. More information available in the compatibility chart

Documentation

The online documentation is available here

Contact

For any message about EditArea see sourceforge tracker