A rich text editor for everyday writing. Compose beautifully formatted text in your web application. Trix is an editor for writing messages, comments, articles, and lists—the simple documents most web apps are made of. It features a sophisticated document model, support for embedded attachments, and outputs terse and consistent HTML. Trix is an open-source project from Basecamp, the creators of Ruby on Rails. Millions of people trust their text to Basecamp, and we built Trix to give them the best possible editing experience. Most WYSIWYG editors are wrappers around HTML’s contenteditable and execCommand APIs, designed by Microsoft to support live editing of web pages in Internet Explorer 5.5, and eventually reverse-engineered and copied by other browsers. Trix complete control over what happens after every keystroke, and avoids the need to use execCommand at all.
Features
- Compose beautifully formatted text in your web application
- Trix converts inputs into an editing operation on its internal document model
- Trix re-renders documents back into the editor
- Complete control over what happens after every keystroke
- Avoids the need to use execCommand at all
- Sophisticated document model, embedded attachments, and consistent HTML