What is the best rich textarea editor for jQuery?

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned markitup:

markItUp! is a JavaScript plugin built on the jQuery library. It allows you to turn any textarea into a markup editor. Html, Textile, Wiki Syntax, Markdown, BBcode or even your own Markup system can be easily implemented.

For me markitup is an excellent editor. It does rich text as a markup editor and allows you to use different standards: html, wiki, UBB, etc... It also allows plugins very easily.

I personaly use FCK because Tiny MCE does't handle html editing well, small changes in html produce lots of unececary html tags.

For full on html (rather than WMD style b / i / a) I normally use http://www.fckeditor.net/. Customisation can be a little cumbersome, but reliable once in place.

• WYMeditor (What You See Is What You Mean) is a jQuery plugin.
• jWysiwyg is an alternative with much less features

I really like Yahoo's YUI Rich Text Editor.

WMD looks good. too bad it does not use jquery framework. TinyMce is pretty large and could slow down the page load..

look at this post: http://www.queness.com/post/212/10-jquery-and-non-jquery-javascript-rich-text-editors

hope it helps

-Towfiq I.

I would say the best one non.jQuery and $() conflict free would be the dijit.Editor from Dojo Toolkit. Take a look here

Tiny MCE is the best IMHO - I have tired a ton of them and Tiny has the best over features, easy to create content templates, easy to set which CSS is shown in the editor and used to display it, very large API, great skins, ect...