@sendgrid/draft-js
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Draft.js is a JavaScript rich text editor framework, built for React and backed by an immutable model.
Learn how to use Draft.js in your own project.
Before getting started, please be aware that we recently changed the API of
Entity storage in Draft. The latest version, v0.10.0, supports both the old
and new API. Following that up will be v0.11.0 which will remove the old API.
If you are interested in helping out, or tracking the progress, please follow
issue 839.
Currently Draft.js is distributed via npm. It depends on React and React DOM which must also be installed.
npm install --save draft-js react react-dom
or
yarn add draft-js react react-dom
import React from 'react';
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import {Editor, EditorState} from 'draft-js';
class MyEditor extends React.Component {
constructor(props) {
super(props);
this.state = {editorState: EditorState.createEmpty()};
this.onChange = (editorState) => this.setState({editorState});
this.setEditor = (editor) => {
this.editor = editor;
};
this.focusEditor = () => {
if (this.editor) {
this.editor.focus();
}
};
}
componentDidMount() {
this.focusEditor();
}
render() {
return (
<div style={styles.editor} onClick={this.focusEditor}>
<Editor
ref={this.setEditor}
editorState={this.state.editorState}
onChange={this.onChange}
/>
</div>
);
}
}
const styles = {
editor: {
border: '1px solid gray',
minHeight: '6em'
}
};
ReactDOM.render(
<MyEditor />,
document.getElementById('container')
);
Since the release of React 16.8, you can use Hooks as a way to work with EditorState without using a class.
import React from 'react';
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import {Editor, EditorState} from 'draft-js';
function MyEditor() {
const [editorState, setEditorState] = React.useState(
EditorState.createEmpty()
);
const editor = React.useRef(null);
function focusEditor() {
editor.current.focus();
}
React.useEffect(() => {
focusEditor()
}, []);
return (
<div onClick={focusEditor}>
<Editor
ref={editor}
editorState={editorState}
onChange={editorState => setEditorState(editorState)}
/>
</div>
);
}
Note that the editor itself is only as tall as its contents. In order to give users a visual cue, we recommend setting a border and a minimum height via the .DraftEditor-root CSS selector, or using a wrapper div like in the above example.
Because Draft.js supports unicode, you must have the following meta tag in the <head> </head> block of your HTML file:
<meta charset="utf-8" />
Further examples of how Draft.js can be used are provided below.
Visit http://draftjs.org/ to try out a basic rich editor example.
The repository includes a variety of different editor examples to demonstrate some of the features offered by the framework.
To run the examples, first build Draft.js locally:
git clone https://github.com/facebook/draft-js.git
cd draft-js
npm install
npm run build
then open the example HTML files in your browser.
Draft.js is used in production on Facebook, including status and comment inputs, Notes, and messenger.com.
 IE / Edge |  Firefox |  Chrome |  Safari |  iOS Safari | Chrome for Android |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IE11, Edge [1, 2] | last 2 versions | last 2 versions | last 2 versions | not fully supported [3] | not fully supported [3] |
[1] May need a shim or a polyfill for some syntax used in Draft.js (docs).
[2] IME inputs have known issues in these browsers, especially Korean (docs).
[3] There are known issues with mobile browsers, especially on Android (docs).
Check out this curated list of articles and open-sourced projects/utilities: Awesome Draft-JS.
Join our Slack team!
We actively welcome pull requests. Learn how to contribute.
Draft.js is MIT licensed.
Examples provided in this repository and in the documentation are separately licensed.
FAQs
A React framework for building text editors.
We found that @sendgrid/draft-js demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 4 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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