[Drupal 7] CKEditor module overview

The contributed CKEditor module replaces plain textarea fields with CKEditor, a visual HTML editor, sometimes called WYSIWYG editor. It's a very fast HTML editor that runs in a browser and doesn't require any kind of installation on the client computer.

CKEditor is a core module as of Drupal 8.

To see CKEditor in action, visit CKEditor web site or Drupal + CKEditor demo.

Features

• End user features
• Developer features

Some features of the CKEditor module:

• ready to use plugins and buttons for <!--break-->and <!--pagebreak--> tags
• support for external file browsers, like CKFinder, IMCE (See instructions for CKfinder/CKEditor integration)
• linktocontent and linktonode plugins and buttons for easy linking to nodes or menu items.
• each user may have it's own configuration (choose skin, toolbar, language, default state of CKEditor, etc.)
• and much more!

Browser compatibility

CKEditor is compatible with most of the internet browsers, including

• Internet Explorer 6.0+
• Firefox 2.0+
• Safari 3.0+
• Opera 9.5+
• Google Chrome
• Camino 1.0+

Useful links

• CKEditor module project site
• CKEditor - the official web site
• CKEditor + Drupal web site - contains demo as well as some additional instructions and hints
• Installation instruction
• Troubleshooting
• Drupal CKEditor setup & development tutorial