Squire
A lightweight, dependency-free HTML5 rich text editor designed to handle arbitrary HTML with powerful cross-browser normalization.
What is Squire?
Squire is an HTML5 rich text editor that provides robust cross-browser normalization in a flexible, lightweight package. It was originally designed for email composition, requiring it to handle arbitrary HTML from third-party emails without breaking formatting, making HTML the source of truth. Unlike many modern editors, it avoids a structured internal data model to preserve complex HTML, excelling particularly with multiple levels of blockquotes.
Developers building web-based email clients or applications that need to handle and edit arbitrary HTML content, such as email forwarding, quoting, or rich text composition with complex formatting. It is also suitable for projects requiring a lightweight, dependency-free editor component that can be integrated with custom UI toolbars.
Developers choose Squire for its ability to preserve arbitrary HTML without sanitization limitations, its lightweight size (16KB minified and gzipped with no dependencies), and its specialized handling of nested blockquotes. It provides a core editing engine without built-in UI, allowing seamless integration with custom application interfaces and avoiding the bloat of dual UI toolkits.
Overview
The rich text editor for arbitrary HTML.
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