# bergie/hallo

Simple rich text editor (contentEditable) for jQuery UI

Repository: https://github.com/bergie/hallo
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/bergie-hallo
Homepage: http://hallojs.org/
Language: CoffeeScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: rich-text-editor, jquery-ui
Archived: true
Last push: 2020-09-03T15:39:25+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5599, "days_push": 2190, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2444, forks 307 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:52.607295+00:00)

## What it is
Hallo is a simple in-place rich text editor widget for jQuery UI built on HTML5 contentEditable, written in CoffeeScript. Formatting features like bold and italic are provided via optional plugins rather than the core widget.

## Use cases
- make paragraphs editable in place on a web page
- add a lightweight rich text editor to a jQuery UI app
- build a minimal contenteditable WYSIWYG editor
- let users edit CMS content directly on the page
- add bold/italic formatting toolbar to editable regions

## When to choose
- you already use jQuery and jQuery UI and want a tiny, pluggable in-place editor
- you need a liberally licensed (MIT) simple alternative to heavyweight editors like Aloha

## When to avoid
- starting a new project - the project is unmaintained and depends on legacy jQuery/jQuery UI and Rangy
- you need a modern editor with active support, accessibility guarantees, or framework integrations

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: abandoned
- function: ui-components, editor
- domain: web-development, frontend, text-editors
- platform: browser
- tags: rich-text-editor, jquery-ui, contenteditable, wysiwyg, coffeescript, in-place-editing, nodejs

## Member repositories
- bergie/hallo (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:52.607295+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:30:34.314146+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/bergie/hallo (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:52.607295+00:00, sha 81b4517d3fb0)
  - homepage: http://hallojs.org/ (fetched 2026-08-29T10:12:05.742846+00:00, sha b0329860beb5)
  - site_page: https://hallojs.org/about-us (fetched 2026-08-29T10:12:05.752008+00:00, sha 7ec516fe0235)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.