tiny mce makes an iframe (and other interface bits) to display content (sometimes from textareas) and makes it editable.
in the dom there is contentEditable, which has all mannor of different quirks between browser due to implementation http://www.quirksmode.org/dom/execCommand/ tiny mce (other editors are available jquery has one coming - http://code.google.com/p/jwysiwyg/ [maybe others UI?]) level out the differences to resolve any incompatibilities - S 2008/10/2 703designs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Fundamentally, how do the editors like TinyMCE work? Every RTE > implementation I've seen uses an iframe, and I have no idea what goes > on after that. Anyone here know the answer to this? >