Hey guys.
I am looking for a WYSIWYG editor without all the bells and whistles. I don't want a tool bar. All I want the user to see is a standing textarea box but I want the text to be formated in the way the user wants (ie spacing.) I have found plenty with toolbars and features, but none that are stripped down. Any suggestions?

FCKEditor. It allows you to turn off the toolbar.

<textarea name="editor"> <textarea> will do exactly what you want.

I've never found one, had to stay with dreamweaver. Definitely a market out there for a stripped down wysiwyg editor

The best web based WYSIWYG editors I've found are:
TinyMCE 3: Creates compliant XHTML code.
WIDGeditor: Small and designed to create clean code, but may have a problem with some versions of Firefox.

If you're just after simple stuff like retaining newlines and paragraphs, it's fairly easy to build a PHP script that'll convert them to <br /> and <p></p> tags.