Draft.js is a JavaScript rich text editor framework, built for React. It provides a set of immutable models and helper functions for creating rich text editors with a high degree of customization and control over the content and behavior.
Creating a Basic Editor
This code demonstrates how to create a basic rich text editor using Draft.js. It initializes an empty editor state and renders the editor component.
import React from 'react';
import { Editor, EditorState } from 'draft-js';
import 'draft-js/dist/Draft.css';
class MyEditor extends React.Component {
constructor(props) {
super(props);
this.state = { editorState: EditorState.createEmpty() };
this.onChange = (editorState) => this.setState({ editorState });
}
render() {
return (
<Editor editorState={this.state.editorState} onChange={this.onChange} />
);
}
}
export default MyEditor;Handling Text Formatting
This code demonstrates how to handle text formatting commands in Draft.js. It uses the `RichUtils.handleKeyCommand` method to apply formatting like bold, italic, etc., based on keyboard shortcuts.
import React from 'react';
import { Editor, EditorState, RichUtils } from 'draft-js';
import 'draft-js/dist/Draft.css';
class MyEditor extends React.Component {
constructor(props) {
super(props);
this.state = { editorState: EditorState.createEmpty() };
this.onChange = (editorState) => this.setState({ editorState });
this.handleKeyCommand = this.handleKeyCommand.bind(this);
}
handleKeyCommand(command, editorState) {
const newState = RichUtils.handleKeyCommand(editorState, command);
if (newState) {
this.onChange(newState);
return 'handled';
}
return 'not-handled';
}
render() {
return (
<Editor
editorState={this.state.editorState}
handleKeyCommand={this.handleKeyCommand}
onChange={this.onChange}
/>
);
}
}
export default MyEditor;Custom Block Rendering
This code demonstrates how to implement custom block rendering in Draft.js. It defines a custom block renderer function and a custom block component to render specific types of content blocks.
import React from 'react';
import { Editor, EditorState, ContentBlock } from 'draft-js';
import 'draft-js/dist/Draft.css';
function myBlockRenderer(contentBlock) {
const type = contentBlock.getType();
if (type === 'atomic') {
return {
component: MyCustomBlockComponent,
editable: false,
};
}
}
class MyCustomBlockComponent extends React.Component {
render() {
return <div>My Custom Block</div>;
}
}
class MyEditor extends React.Component {
constructor(props) {
super(props);
this.state = { editorState: EditorState.createEmpty() };
this.onChange = (editorState) => this.setState({ editorState });
}
render() {
return (
<Editor
editorState={this.state.editorState}
onChange={this.onChange}
blockRendererFn={myBlockRenderer}
/>
);
}
}
export default MyEditor;Slate is a completely customizable framework for building rich text editors. Unlike Draft.js, which provides a more opinionated structure, Slate offers more flexibility and control over the editor's behavior and appearance. It uses a more modern approach with a focus on immutability and functional programming.
Quill is a powerful, rich text editor that provides a wide range of features out of the box. It is more feature-rich and easier to set up compared to Draft.js, but it offers less flexibility for customization and control over the editor's internals.
ProseMirror is a toolkit for building rich text editors with a focus on extensibility and customizability. It provides a more modular approach compared to Draft.js, allowing developers to build complex editors with custom behaviors and features.
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 simple 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.
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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.
0.11.1 (September 19th, 2019)
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A React framework for building text editors.
The npm package draft-js receives a total of 674,021 weekly downloads. As such, draft-js popularity was classified as popular.
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