Voog/wysihtml

Health v2 · maintenance only

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3349 stars · 332 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

wysihtml is an open-source, dependency-free rich text WYSIWYG editor for the web, forked from xing/wysihtml5. It generates valid semantic HTML5, sanitizes pasted content, and uses sandboxed iframes to prevent XSS.

Use cases

• embed a rich text editor in a web form
• let users write formatted HTML content in a CMS
• sanitize pasted content from Word into clean HTML
• build a comment box with bold/italic/heading formatting
• replace a textarea with a WYSIWYG editor without jQuery

When to choose

• you need a lightweight, library-agnostic editor with no jQuery dependency
• you require valid semantic HTML5 output and paste sanitization
• you need XSS-safe editing via sandboxed iframes
• you want modular extensibility with custom parser rules

When to avoid

• you need a modern, actively maintained editor - the latest release is from 2019
• you need collaborative editing or advanced rich-text features like tables in the default build
• your project uses a modern framework where a React/Vue-native editor fits better

Facets

library · maturity maintenance

ui-components form-handling parser web-development frontend text-editors browser rich-text-editor wysiwyg html5 contenteditable xss-protection no-dependencies javascript

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