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 small text).

This editor is free and freely distributable (released under LGPL license). 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)
• Search and replace (with regexp)
• Customizable real-time syntax highlighting (currently: PHP, CSS, Javascript, Python, HTML, XML, VB, C, CPP, Pascal, Basic, Brainf*ck)
• Auto-indenting new lines
• Line numerotation
• Multilanguage support (currently: Croatian, Danish, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese)
• Possible PHP gzip compression (compress the 12 core files to one file of ~20Ko)
• 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 "protype" and "mootools"'s like libraries.

Current limitations:

• automatic focus on the textarea on page load.
• 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 0.7, released on 2007-10-10. Go on sourceforge for EditArea 0.7 downloads.

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

Compatibility

It works on IE 6 & 7, Firefox 1.5 & 2 and Opera 9. More information available in the compatibility chart

Documentation

The online documentation is available here

Contact

You can leave me messages here