froala-editor
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The next generation Javascript WYSIWYG HTML rich text editor made by devs for devs. High performance and modern design make it easy to use for developers and loved by users.
Froala Editor is a lightweight WYSIWYG HTML Editor written in JavaScript that enables rich text editing capabilities for web applications. It is designed to be easy to integrate and offers a wide range of features including text formatting, image and video embedding, and more.
Text Formatting
This feature allows users to format text with options like bold, italic, underline, and more. The code sample initializes the Froala Editor with a toolbar that includes these text formatting options.
const FroalaEditor = require('froala-editor');
new FroalaEditor('#editor', {
toolbarButtons: ['bold', 'italic', 'underline', 'strikeThrough', 'subscript', 'superscript']
});Image Upload
This feature enables users to upload images directly into the editor. The code sample shows how to configure the editor to upload images to a specified URL.
const FroalaEditor = require('froala-editor');
new FroalaEditor('#editor', {
imageUploadURL: '/upload_image'
});Video Embedding
This feature allows users to embed videos within the editor. The code sample demonstrates how to enable video embedding in the Froala Editor.
const FroalaEditor = require('froala-editor');
new FroalaEditor('#editor', {
videoUpload: true
});Custom Toolbar
This feature allows customization of the toolbar to include only the desired buttons. The code sample shows how to initialize the editor with a custom toolbar that includes buttons for text formatting, image insertion, and video insertion.
const FroalaEditor = require('froala-editor');
new FroalaEditor('#editor', {
toolbarButtons: ['bold', 'italic', 'underline', 'insertImage', 'insertVideo']
});Quill is a modern WYSIWYG editor built for compatibility and extensibility. It offers a similar range of features to Froala Editor, including text formatting, image and video embedding, and a customizable toolbar. Quill is known for its modular architecture and ease of customization.
TinyMCE is a popular rich text editor that provides a wide range of features similar to Froala Editor. It supports text formatting, image and video embedding, and a customizable toolbar. TinyMCE is highly extensible and offers a large number of plugins to enhance its functionality.
CKEditor is a powerful WYSIWYG editor that offers a comprehensive set of features, including text formatting, image and video embedding, and a customizable toolbar. CKEditor is known for its robust performance and extensive plugin ecosystem, making it a strong competitor to Froala Editor.
Froala WYSIWYG HTML Editor is one of the most powerful JavaScript rich text editors ever.
npm install froala-editor
bower install froala-wysiwyg-editor
Using Froala Editor from CDN is the easiest way to install it and we recommend using the jsDeliver CDN as it mirrors the NPM package.
<!-- Include Editor style. -->
<link href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/froala-editor@latest/css/froala_editor.pkgd.min.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<!-- Create a tag that we will use as the editable area. -->
<!-- You can use a div tag as well. -->
<textarea></textarea>
<!-- Include Editor JS files. -->
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/froala-editor@latest/js/froala_editor.pkgd.min.js"></script>
<!-- Initialize the editor. -->
<script>
new FroalaEditor('textarea');
</script>
Froala Editor is compatible with AMD module loaders such as RequireJS. The following example shows how to load it along with the Algin plugin from CDN using RequireJS.
<html>
<head>
<!-- Load CSS files. -->
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/froala-editor@latest/css/froala_editor.css">
<script src="require.js"></script>
<script>
require.config({
packages: [{
name: 'froala-editor',
main: 'js/froala_editor.min'
}],
paths: {
// Change this to your server if you do not wish to use our CDN.
'froala-editor': 'https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/froala-editor@latest'
}
});
</script>
<style>
body {
text-align: center;
}
div#editor {
width: 81%;
margin: auto;
text-align: left;
}
.ss {
background-color: red;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="editor">
<div id='edit' style='margin-top:30px;'>
</div>
</div>
<script>
require([
'froala-editor',
'froala-editor/js/plugins/align.min'
], function(FroalaEditor) {
new FroalaEditor('#edit')
});
</script>
</body>
</html>
Froala Editor is using an UMD module pattern, as a result it has support for CommonJS. The following examples presumes you are using npm to install froala-editor, see Download and install FroalaEditor for more details.
var FroalaEditor = require('froala-editor');
// Load a plugin.
require('froala-editor/js/plugins/align.min');
// Initialize editor.
new FroalaEditor('#edit');
Since Froala Editor supports ES6 (ESM - ECMAScript modules) and UMD (AMD, CommonJS), it can be also loaded as a module with the use of transpilers. E.g. Babel, Typescript. The following examples presumes you are using npm to install froala-editor, see Download and install FroalaEditor for more details.
import FroalaEditor from 'froala-editor'
// Load a plugin.
import 'froala-editor/js/plugins/align.min.js'
// Initialize editor.
new FroalaEditor('#edit')
For more details on customizing the editor, please check the editor documentation.
At present, we officially aim to support the last two versions of the following browsers:
We use GitHub Issues as the official bug tracker for the Froala WYSIWYG HTML Editor. Here are some advices for our users that want to report an issue:
If you have questions or need help integrating the editor please contact us instead of opening an issue.
In order to use the Froala Editor you have to purchase one of the following licenses according to your needs. You can find more about that on our website on the pricing plan page.
FAQs
The next generation Javascript WYSIWYG HTML rich text editor made by devs for devs. High performance and modern design make it easy to use for developers and loved by users.
The npm package froala-editor receives a total of 147,742 weekly downloads. As such, froala-editor popularity was classified as popular.
We found that froala-editor demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 0 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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