ckeditor5

What is ckeditor5?

CKEditor 5 is a modern JavaScript rich text editor with a modular architecture. It offers a wide range of features and is highly customizable, making it suitable for various types of content editing needs.

What are ckeditor5's main functionalities?

Basic Text Editing

This code initializes a basic CKEditor 5 instance with classic build, allowing users to perform basic text editing tasks such as bold, italic, and underline.

import ClassicEditor from '@ckeditor/ckeditor5-build-classic';

ClassicEditor.create(document.querySelector('#editor'))
  .then(editor => {
    console.log('Editor was initialized', editor);
  })
  .catch(error => {
    console.error(error);
  });

Custom Plugins

This code demonstrates how to initialize CKEditor 5 with custom plugins. In this example, only the Bold and Italic plugins are included, and the toolbar is customized to show only these options.

import ClassicEditor from '@ckeditor/ckeditor5-editor-classic/src/classiceditor';
import Essentials from '@ckeditor/ckeditor5-essentials/src/essentials';
import Bold from '@ckeditor/ckeditor5-basic-styles/src/bold';
import Italic from '@ckeditor/ckeditor5-basic-styles/src/italic';

ClassicEditor.create(document.querySelector('#editor'), {
  plugins: [Essentials, Bold, Italic],
  toolbar: ['bold', 'italic']
})
  .then(editor => {
    console.log('Editor was initialized with custom plugins', editor);
  })
  .catch(error => {
    console.error(error);
  });

Real-time Collaboration

This code initializes CKEditor 5 with real-time collaboration features, allowing multiple users to edit the same document simultaneously and see each other's changes in real-time.

import ClassicEditor from '@ckeditor/ckeditor5-editor-classic/src/classiceditor';
import RealTimeCollaborativeEditing from '@ckeditor/ckeditor5-real-time-collaboration/src/realtimecollaborativeediting';
import RealTimeCollaborativeComments from '@ckeditor/ckeditor5-real-time-collaboration/src/realtimecollaborativecomments';

ClassicEditor.create(document.querySelector('#editor'), {
  plugins: [RealTimeCollaborativeEditing, RealTimeCollaborativeComments],
  toolbar: ['comment', 'trackChanges']
})
  .then(editor => {
    console.log('Editor was initialized with real-time collaboration', editor);
  })
  .catch(error => {
    console.error(error);
  });

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