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I tried Scribe and was quite enthused about it but there are trivial bugs that never got fixed, been a year since I filed this issue[1]: Basically, http://jsfiddle.net/L59kL1rf/ -- you cannot delete the first paragraph and always end up with <p><br /></p> and if you try to delete that it just starts acting strange. This issue has been open since 2014 and it seems it's a bug in the core. There were other similar issues I ran into around the same and decided I would revisit later but it's been a nearly a year since. [1]: https://github.com/guardian/scribe/issues/300

Great timing, we were just looking for a new editor for our project. Since there are so many choices, here's a list of everything mentioned in this post. Trix - https://github.com/basecamp/trix - demo here: http://trix-editor.org/ by basecamp and used in v3, handles files/images well Squire - https://github.com/neilj/Squire - used in FastMail webmail, better for text than images ProseMirror - http://prosemirror.net/ - not great with images Scribe - https://github.com/guardian/scribe - by the Guardian team CKEditor - http://ckeditor.com/ - solid and very customizable, lots of plugins, a little dated in look/feel Quill - http://quilljs.com/ Summernote - http://summernote.org/ wysihtml - http://wysihtml.com/ Etherpad - http://etherpad.org/ - collaborative realtime editing TinyMCE - http://www.tinymce.com/ - older editor but still good Textb

Sadly, while the Scribe developers correctly identified all the various problems with contenteditable (https://github.com/guardian/scribe/blob/master/BROWSERINCONS...), they chose to solve it like most other editors: by using execCommand, waiting for the browser to make a change, and then attempting to clean it up afterwards. Trix's thesis is that this approach is fundamentally broken. Instead, Trix updates an internal document model on each input event, then re-renders the editor contents in response.

'contenteditable is inconsistent across browsers'. We (the Guardian) created Scribe to tackle this: https://github.com/guardian/scribe (I can't take any credit personally though alas!)

Have you tried Scribe editor? https://github.com/guardian/scribe I've found it has better HTML output than medium-editor (though still not perfect) and has a more flexible design, though it requires a bit more developer involvement to get up and running.