# WYSIWYG / content formatting suggestions?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/wysiwyg-content-formatting-suggestions/125131>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [January 5, 2008, 11:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/wysiwyg-content-formatting-suggestions/125131 "2008-01-05T23:33:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![joergbattermann](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/edb3f5/32.png) [@joergbattermann](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/joergbattermann)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2008, 11:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/wysiwyg-content-formatting-suggestions/125131/1 "2008-01-05T23:33:57Z")

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Hey there,

I am currently using plain textiled fields to allow formatting up to a  
certain degree, but if I let other users use my little project, they  
might not be so technologically savvy and might have problems with  
that raw formatting.

Does anyone have any good suggestions for a more userfriendly type of  
content editing? I looked into typical editors like tinymce/  
fckeditor… and even the textile helper plugin… but the later made  
more problems than expected and the first two kind of seem to play  
somewhat roughly with prototype/rails as a backend.

Any suggestions/ideas are highly appreciated 🙂

-J

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**Author:** ![joergbattermann](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/edb3f5/32.png) [@joergbattermann](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/joergbattermann)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2008, 4:55am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/wysiwyg-content-formatting-suggestions/125131/2 "2008-01-06T04:55:53Z")

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> more problems than expected and the first two kind of seem to play  
> somewhat roughly with prototype/rails as a backend.
> 
> Any suggestions/ideas are highly appreciated 🙂

fckeditor plays well with rails as far as I’ve seen. There’s even a  
plugin for it that lets it work with ajax based forms. We use it pretty  
extensively (magazine articles, news items, etc.) and it’s pretty nice.

It’s also amazingly customizable. You can add your own tool bars to do  
diferent things, you can remove toolbars, you can customize the styles  
that are available globally and per element (ie, select an image and the  
style list changes). You can also have it wrap things in with custom  
classes as well.

-p