@ckeditor/ckeditor5-special-characters
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@ckeditor/ckeditor5-special-characters is a plugin for CKEditor 5 that allows users to insert special characters into their content. This can be particularly useful for adding symbols, mathematical characters, and other non-standard text elements that are not easily accessible from a standard keyboard.
Inserting Special Characters
This feature allows users to insert special characters into their content. The code sample demonstrates how to add the SpecialCharacters plugin to a CKEditor 5 instance and include it in the toolbar.
ClassicEditor.create(document.querySelector('#editor'), { extraPlugins: [SpecialCharacters], toolbar: ['specialCharacters'] })Customizing Special Characters
This feature allows users to customize the special characters available in the editor. The code sample shows how to define a custom category of special characters (in this case, arrows) and include it in the editor configuration.
ClassicEditor.create(document.querySelector('#editor'), { extraPlugins: [SpecialCharacters], toolbar: ['specialCharacters'], specialCharacters: { categories: [ { name: 'Arrows', characters: [ '→', '←', '↑', '↓' ] } ] } })Quill is a modern WYSIWYG editor built for compatibility and extensibility. It offers a rich API for customizing the editor, including the ability to add special characters. Compared to @ckeditor/ckeditor5-special-characters, Quill provides a more general-purpose editor with a broader range of customization options.
TinyMCE is a popular rich text editor that provides a wide range of features, including the ability to insert special characters. It offers a plugin system similar to CKEditor, allowing users to extend its functionality. TinyMCE is comparable to @ckeditor/ckeditor5-special-characters in terms of its ability to handle special characters, but it also includes many other advanced editing features.
Draft.js is a JavaScript rich text editor framework, built for React. It allows for extensive customization and control over the editor's content and behavior. While it does not have a built-in special characters plugin, developers can create custom solutions to handle special characters. Draft.js offers more flexibility and control compared to @ckeditor/ckeditor5-special-characters, but requires more effort to implement similar functionality.
This package implements the special characters feature for CKEditor 5.
Check out the demo in the special character feature guide.
See the @ckeditor/ckeditor5-special-characters package page as well as the special characters feature guide in CKEditor 5 documentation.
npm install ckeditor5
Licensed under the terms of GNU General Public License Version 2 or later. For full details about the license, please check the LICENSE.md file or https://ckeditor.com/legal/ckeditor-oss-license.
43.0.0 (August 7, 2024)
We are happy to announce the release of CKEditor 5 v43.0.0.
The new merge fields feature is a game-changer for creating document templates and other kinds of personalized or dynamic content. Thanks to this feature, you can insert placeholders into your content, indicating where actual values should go. These places are marked in the final content in a distinctive way, making it easy to later process the template and fill it with the actual values. The feature supports a preview mode too - you can define preview data sets, and see how the content will look like when real values are used directly in the editor. The plugin is highly customizable to fit various applications and scenarios. Finally, merge fields are fully integrated with our Export to Word, Export to PDF, and Import from Word features, both when they are used from the editor and via REST API.
We are extremely happy to share with you this highly demanded feature, and we cannot wait to listen to your feedback!
Make sure to visit our builder or documentation to learn more about the feature.
The V2 version of the export to Word feature introduced significant improvements, optimizations, and fixes. This update enhances the overall performance, making the export process faster and more reliable, especially for large documents. Key improvements include better handling of table borders, automatic detection of Word styles from CSS, and support for more text-related CSS properties, ensuring your documents maintain their intended formatting.
Starting this version, the V2 configuration becomes the default in the ExportWord plugin. Make sure to migrate your configuration if you are using it.
We have introduced multiple enhancements to make the sidebar more accessible. Among other improvements, you can now use the <kbd>Shift</kbd>+<kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>E</kbd> keystroke to move focus from the editor marker to the active annotation. When your comment reply is ready, you can quickly submit it using the new <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>Enter</kbd> shortcut. Also, navigation from one annotation to another is now possible by using arrow keys.
The full lists of keyboard supported actions can be reviewed in our Accessibility support guide.
This release brings notable bug fixes and improvements to enhance your editing experience.
We have released new major versions of the React and Vue integrations. In both of them, we have migrated to JavaScript modules (ESM) and rewritten large parts of the codebases to support the latest versions of these frameworks and to follow the latest recommendations for writing the components.
We strongly recommend that you follow the release highlights to update to the latest versions:
FAQs
Special characters feature for CKEditor 5.
The npm package @ckeditor/ckeditor5-special-characters receives a total of 94,203 weekly downloads. As such, @ckeditor/ckeditor5-special-characters popularity was classified as popular.
We found that @ckeditor/ckeditor5-special-characters demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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