WriteIt is an extremely lightweight richtext editor for jQuery. It has a mild CSS dependency on the Bootstrap framework (that can easily be worked around by restyling the buttons). This is a very no-nonsense plugin that simply makes use of execCommand by replacing the passed DOM node with an iframe. Example of how to use WriteIt: <textarea id="editor">Howdy, li'l lady.</textarea> <script type="text/javascript"> //initialize WriteIt var myEditor = $('#editor').writeit(); //set text inside WriteIt myEditor.writeit('setText', 'titties'); //get text inside WriteIt console.log(myEditor.writeit('getText')); </script>