The old FCKEditor (6 years old – making it 18 human years) has been simply renamed to CKEditor.  Rightfully so, CKEditor is a much more modern product when compared to its predecessor.

CKEditor is a text editor built for web pages.  It’s a WYSIWYG editor, which means that the text being edited on it looks as similar as possible to the results users have when publishing it.  It brings to the web common editing features found on desktop editing applications like Microsoft Word and OpenOffice.

Features include:

  • Basic & Advanced Styling
  • Real Block-quoting
  • Colors
  • Advanced Paste from MS Word
  • Advanced Linking
  • E-mail Linking
  • Link Anchors
  • Maximize large blocks
  • Find and Replace
  • …and more

It’s most attributable attribute?

Fully functional, open source editor, with source code included.

Go checkout the CKEditor demo.  There’s even one for jQuery.