# Voog/wysihtml

Open source rich text editor for the modern web

Repository: https://github.com/Voog/wysihtml
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/wysihtml
Homepage: http://wysihtml.com
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2019-06-22T15:05:10+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4752, "days_push": 2629, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3349, forks 332 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:57.796178+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: ui-components, form-handling, parser
- domain: web-development, frontend, text-editors
- platform: browser
- tags: rich-text-editor, wysiwyg, html5, contenteditable, xss-protection, no-dependencies, javascript

## Member repositories
- Voog/wysihtml (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:57.796178+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 2026-08-29T18:40:58.634619+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/Voog/wysihtml (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:57.796178+00:00, sha dc1f23e620ce)
  - homepage: http://wysihtml.com (fetched 2026-08-29T09:34:20.436696+00:00, sha 476bc6d7282a)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/wysihtml (fetched 2026-08-29T09:34:20.445571+00:00, sha e39635f40bc7)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.