Edit without Frustration
EditLive! works the way a rich text editor should, removing the frustration from editing online content.
Its intuitive interface means there’s no learning curve and no reformatting needed by your content managers and authors.
Import from Anywhere
Copy and paste content seamlessly, no matter where your content comes from: Microsoft Word, Excel or any web site.
Clean import maintains content structures such as headings, tables, lists and even images - without bringing in any messy HTML markup or CSS styling.
Create Remarkable Content
Create great-looking content with ease, using your site’s style sheet and EditLive!.
EditLive! works with your site’s CSS, presenting relevant styles in context throughout the editor. Authors can combine your style sheet with the ability to work with lists, tables, images, DIVs and other complex markup to create fantastic content, irrespective of their technical expertise.
Make Image Editing a Breeze
With a built-in image editor, EditLive! makes editing images a breeze.
Resize, crop, rotate or add effects to any image in your content. Then EditLive! takes care of everything else to get your new image online.
Avoid Embarrassing Mistakes
Never get caught with a misspeeelled word, broken link, or search for a synonym again.
EditLive! includes out of the box capabilities such as spell check as you type, a thesaurus and hyperlink checking. And you get all of this without the need to license, install or configure any third party software.
Collaborate with Teams
EditLive! speeds up the revision process and makes collaboration among authors and reviewers a breeze with track changes and commenting.
Don’t leave your comments until the end, embed them in context using EditLive!’s commenting feature. Use track changes to markup the content so your colleagues can see all your changes. Text, table and formatting changes are all tracked.
Make Your Markup Compliant
We understand that standards are important to ensure your content works reliably on all browsers and platforms.
EditLive! creates accessible content that is guaranteed to comply with HTML, CSS and accessibility standards, including W3C and US Government Section 508 Guidelines. There’s even a built-in source code editor with syntax highlighting.
Configure the Editor
EditLive! is completely configurable. Whether you need to limit formatting options or provide your authors access to every font, color or styling capability, EditLive! can be configured to your needs.
Every button and menu item can be turned on or off - and most aspects of EditLive!’s behavior can be customized.
Get Global, Enterprise-grade Support
With responsive, same time zone support around the globe, Ephox is always available to help.
Whether you’re a large enterprise or a small business, we provide excellent support because we understand the importance of having authoring that works.
Love the Intuitive Interface
No one wants to play ‘find that button’ when it comes to editing content.
EditLive!’s intuitive interface works the way your authors expect with familiar icons, keyboard shortcuts and menus. There’s no learning curve, which means it’s a frustration-free editing experience.
Copy and Paste with Ease
Copy and paste content seamlessly - no matter where it comes from: Microsoft Word, Excel or any web site. So your content looks killer - every time.
Clean import maintains content structures such as headings, tables, lists and even images, without bringing in any messy HTML markup or CSS styling.
Gain a Safety Net with Autosave
The web can be fickle. Browser crashes, session timeouts, network outages and even the back button can wipe away unsaved work in an instant.
EditLive! includes a client-side autosave feature to ensure that you never lose your work again. Easily restore unsaved content irrespective of what happened and get straight back to where you left off.
Get the Interface You Expect
In any word processor the Tab key has at least four different behaviors and the Enter key has at least six. Context is critical in ensuring a rich text editor functions reliably.
EditLive!’s entire interface is context sensitive. From keystrokes to styling to the right-click menu, EditLive! constantly adapts to the content being edited, ensuring that your authors always get the behavior they expect.
Count on Reliable, Clean HTML Lists
Ever get frustrated when you create an HTML list and it just won’t terminate or end when you press the Enter key? A lot of rich text editors go haywire, but ours never does.
Whatever kind of HTML list you create it EditLive!, you can count on it to work. No matter how many indents or nested lists you use.
Edit HTML Tables Easily
Editing HTML tables can be complex, yet limiting to users more familiar with desktop word processors. Fortunately, EditLive! makes working with tables easy.
EditLive!’s comprehensive table editing features include: inline table resizing for rows and columns; table, row, column and cell properties dialogs; merge and split cells; table accessibility tools and more...
Create Consistently Styled Content
EditLive! works with your style sheet to ensure content is styled consistently throughout your site. You can restrict authors to using only your style sheet or complement your style sheet with EditLive!’s other formatting features.
Authors can combine styles with the ability to work with lists, tables, images, DIVs and other complex markup to create fantastic content, irrespective of their technical expertise.
Gain Formatting Freedom
Empower authors with formatting freedom using EditLive!.
EditLive! has all the formatting features your authors need to customize their content, including simple inline styling with fonts and colors to creating styled sections using DIVs.
Resize, Crop and Edit Images
Don’t download images and edit them in another application. With EditLive!’s built-in image editor, authors can create more visually compelling content in less time without leaving EditLive!.
EditLive!’s image editor supports resizing, cropping, rotating, flipping and applying simple effects.
Design and Share Templates
Create great-looking tables, floating sections, document templates and dynamic content with EditLive! Templating. Share reusable templates with your team to strengthen branding and maintain a consistent look.
Use CSS, Not Deprecated HMTL
EditLive! separates formatting and markup cleanly and simply by using CSS instead of deprecated HTML attributes.
With EditLive!, your content is stylish and standards compliant, making it flexible and ready for rendering on today’s browsers and devices.
Build Mathematical Equations
EditLive! includes a built-in equation editor enabling authors to add mathematical equations to their content.
The Equation Editor includes advanced capabilities for fraction, set and integration notation. Equations can be saved in both standards-compliant Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) or images for easy display.
Capture Conversations with Commenting
Don’t hide your comments away in a text field, embed them in your content instead.
EditLive!’s commenting feature captures conversations between reviewers and authors, and embeds them in context in the content. Comments can now be more precise and insightful, boosting productivity in any content review or collaboration process.
Review Edits via Track Changes
Track changes is the function at the heart of collaborative content creation on the desktop. Now EditLive! brings it online.
Track changes highlights changes according to who made them, shows the author, date and type of each change. Text, layout and formatting changes are all tracked. This saves time, eliminating the need for an abundance of emails, voicemails and meetings.
Achieve Accessibility Compliance As You Type
EditLive! enables your authors to address accessibility compliance issues before their content is published.
Accessibility check as you type makes it easy for authors to notice images missing alternative text, inaccessible tables and other accessibility issues in their content. Makes accessibility checking as easy as spell checking.
Create Accessible Tables Easily
It’s hard to create accessible tables. That is, unless you have EditLive!.
A number of EditLive! features are specifically designed to make creating accessible tables easy. The accessibility check as you type feature identifies tables with possible issues. The convert to percentage widths creates relative-sized tables with a single click. The table accessibility inspector and table accessibility wizard work together to helping users apply the right header and data cell relationships.
Inspect Content with Accessibility Reporting
EditLive!’s accessibility reporting functionality inspects your content and provides a report on accessibility errors and manual accessibility checks for both WCAG and Section 508 guidelines.
Compatibility with Assistive Technologies
EditLive!’s interface is accessibility compliant and is compatible with assistive technologies including popular screen readers such as JAWS from Freedom Scientific.
Create Standards-Compliant HTML
No messy Microsoft markup, unterminated tags or deprecated elements here. EditLive! will always create standards compliant HTML.
Aside from being a best practice, standards compliance means your content can be used anywhere from mobiles to desktops. It also prevents your dependence on vendors (vendor lock-in) while aiding with accessibility.
Produce Standards-Compliant CSS
Whether working with a style sheet or inline styles, it’s important to get styling right. EditLive! produces standards-compliant CSS and uses CSS properties in favor of deprecated HTML attributes.
Create Accessible Content As You Type
EditLive! makes accessibility compliance easy.
Accessibility check as you type and table accessibility tools make it easy for authors to create content that is compliant with WCAG and Section 508 guidelines.
Write Compliant MathML Equations
EditLive!’s equation editor can be configured to create standards compliant Mathematical Markup Language (MathML). This is ideal when you need to create MathML that can be processed by another server or used with another browser plugin.
Choose from 32 Professional Localizations
EditLive!’s user interface has been professionally translated into 32 different languages - from Arabic to Thai. EditLive! is also supplied with localized dictionaries for spell checking in a dozen different languages so its adapted to your specific country or region.
Get 100% Internationalization
EditLive! is 100% internationalized. In addition to specific localizations EditLive! also supports Asian and Middle Eastern character sets, right-to-left orientation for the editor UI and content, and language specific input mechanisms.
Meet Global Accessibility Requirements
EditLive! enables content authors around the globe to address accessibility compliance issues - even before submitting their content. Accessibility check as you type and table accessibility tools make it easy for authors to notice images missing alternative text and make even the most complex tables accessible.
Receive Comprehensive Browser Support
Need comprehensive browser support? No problems with EditLive!. EditLive! supports Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Opera.
Integrate EditLive! in 5 Minutes
Five lines of JavaScript and five minutes.
That’s all it takes to integrate EditLive! into a web application. EditLive!’s flexible integration APIs enable you to seamlessly embed authoring within your application. Integration code for specific programming languages is also available, including a .NET server control.
Experience the Best Editing with Select Edit
Always get the best editing experience with Select Edit.
EditLive!’s Select Edit API enables you to use both EditLive! and Ephox Enterprise TinyMCE without changing your code. Automatic editor selection enables EditLive! and its rich functionality when the Java plugin is available and Enterprise TinyMCE when only content-editable support is available.
Customize Anything and Everything
Because no two applications are the same, EditLive! is completely customizable.
Streamline the editor interface for your needs by adjusting formatting options, hide code view, adjust copy and paste filters and much more. Every menu item and toolbar button can be individually added or removed from the interface and many aspects of EditLive!’s behaviour can be customized to match your requirements.
Extend EditLive! with Robust APIs
Create your own extensions, customizations or integrations using EditLive!’s robust APIs.
EditLive! includes a comprehensive JavaScript API to manipulate content and add custom functionality. Developers can also extend EditLive! via a Java API, providing the power of a flexible, secure, Java environment in the browser.
Get Global, Enterprise-grade Support
With responsive, same time zone support around the globe, Ephox is always available to help.
Whether you’re a large enterprise or a small business, we provide excellent support because we understand the importance of having authoring that works.
Choose Flexible Licensing
Whether you’re a large enterprise, government organization, software company, or small startup, Ephox will create a license that caters to your needs.
As the creator of EditLive!, Ephox is an experienced business partner. We understand that the success of our partners drives our success. That’s why we will work with you to understand the requirements of your business model and provide licensing that works for you.