7 TextArea Editor [Free]

1. Free Markup TextArea HTML Editor in Javascript
A dead simple, fast loading, light weight and easy to use html markup editor for your projects. It is the ultimate textarea replacement. It does not use iframes instead it just replaces textarea into an editor where you can insert basic html markup codes like bold, italic, hyperlink, image, blockquote and more..

2.TinyMCE editor

TinyMCE is a platform independent web based Javascript HTML WYSIWYG editor control released as Open Source under LGPL by Moxiecode Systems AB.
TinyMCE has the ability to convert HTML TEXTAREA fields or other HTML elements to editor instances. TinyMCE is very easy to integrate into other Content Management Systems.

3.Whizzywig

Whizzywig is easy. It lets people create rich, formatted text through a web form. It actually creates xhtml, but you need no HTML knowledge to use it. If you can use a word processor or email, then you can use this.

4.Ckeditor

CKEditor is a text editor to be used inside 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.

5.FreeTextBox HTML Editor

The most-used free ASP.NET WYSIWYG HTML editor featured in open source and commerical projects. Just drop FreeTextbox.dll in your/bin/ folder, change  to , and you're done.

6.XStandard

XStandard is the leading standards-compliant WYSIWYG editor for desktop applications and Web-based content management systems.

7.NicEdit

NicEdit is a WYSIWYG editor for websites. Its goal is to be as simple and fast as possible for users of your application. NicEdit is extremely lightweight and can be easily integrated in any site with minimal impact while providing visitors an effective means to express themselves in rich text.