Price: FREE! *

• Version 2.03 - IE 5.5+ for Windows only (changelog)
• Version 3.0 (beta) - IE 5.5+ (Windows)/Mozilla 1.3 (all OS) cross platform functionality.

* Go ahead and use it free in any web form you like. See the license agreement for the minimal restrictions.

Overview

htmlArea is a WYSIWYG editor replacement for any text  area field. Instead of teaching your software users how to code basic HTML to format their content, they can use htmlArea to:

• Format text to be bold, italicized, or underlined.
• Change the face, size and colour.
• Left, centre, or right-justify paragraphs.
• Make bulleted or numbered lists.
• Indent or un-indent paragraphs
• Insert a horizontal line.
• Insert hyperlinks and images.
• Insert tables
• View the raw HTML source of what they're editing.

You can also create your own buttons to insert custom blocks of HTML code and images.

htmlArea is provided by interactivetools.com completely free.

Please note: because htmlArea is available for free, we can't provide any support. Post a question to our Forum if you're having a problem and someone may be able to help you there.

Something interesting too:

Looking through their forums they talked there about MIDAS, some code to let anything in an IFRAME tag editable.

I did some Google search and I found some nice things like:

Rich-Text editing in Mozilla 1.3

Midas Editor Demo

Converting an app using document.designMode from IE to Midas.

Midas Specifications