WYSIWYG / HTML editor

HamishM

Does anyone know a good WYSIWYG HTML/rich text editor? I see this old example application https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtwidgets-richtext-textedit-example.html but I am looking for a widget that is closer to ready to drop in and go.

I know QTextEdit does HTML but I need the toolbar for styling, inserting links and so on.

JKSH

@HamishM said in WYSIWYG / HTML editor:

Does anyone know a good WYSIWYG HTML/rich text editor?

HTML5 is extremely complex; it's not feasible to have an editor bundled in a widget. You'd need an entire web engine, really.

If you can live with a subset of HTML4, then it's more feasible.

I know QTextEdit does HTML but I need the toolbar for styling, inserting links and so on.

I'm not aware of any ready-made toolbars that can be embedded into a Qt project. You likely need to implement the toolbar yourself.

HamishM

I just need to allow the users to enter some basic text with some styling and insert links. Like the example app but a bit more polished.

I'm surprised someone hasn't made a nice widget for this. We'd be happy to pay for something commercial.

JKSH

@HamishM said in WYSIWYG / HTML editor:

I just need to allow the users to enter some basic text with some styling and insert links. Like the example app but a bit more polished.

I'm surprised someone hasn't made a nice widget for this. We'd be happy to pay for something commercial.

My suggestion if nobody offers you their services: Copy the example's textedit.h and textedit.cpp into your project. Then edit it to make it inherit QWidget instead of QMainWindow. Fix any compilation errors and remove the functions that you don't want (like file saving/loading/printing). That should give you your baasic widget, right?

(The example is available under the BSD license, so you can freely use it in your project)