react-draft-wysiwyg

What is react-draft-wysiwyg?

The react-draft-wysiwyg package is a rich text editor component based on Draft.js. It provides a highly customizable and extensible WYSIWYG editor for React applications, allowing developers to integrate text editing capabilities with ease.

What are react-draft-wysiwyg's main functionalities?

Basic Editor

This code demonstrates how to set up a basic editor using react-draft-wysiwyg. The editor includes default toolbar options and basic styling.

import React from 'react';
import { Editor } from 'react-draft-wysiwyg';
import 'react-draft-wysiwyg/dist/react-draft-wysiwyg.css';

const MyEditor = () => (
  <Editor
    toolbarClassName="toolbarClassName"
    wrapperClassName="wrapperClassName"
    editorClassName="editorClassName"
  />
);

export default MyEditor;

Custom Toolbar

This code shows how to customize the toolbar of the editor. You can specify which options to include and whether they should be displayed in dropdowns.

import React from 'react';
import { Editor } from 'react-draft-wysiwyg';
import 'react-draft-wysiwyg/dist/react-draft-wysiwyg.css';

const MyEditor = () => (
  <Editor
    toolbar={{
      options: ['inline', 'blockType', 'fontSize', 'list', 'textAlign', 'colorPicker', 'link', 'embedded', 'emoji', 'image', 'remove', 'history'],
      inline: { inDropdown: true },
      list: { inDropdown: true },
      textAlign: { inDropdown: true },
      link: { inDropdown: true },
      history: { inDropdown: true },
    }}
  />
);

export default MyEditor;

Controlled Editor

This example demonstrates how to create a controlled editor component. The editor's state is managed using React's useState hook, allowing for more control over the editor's content.

import React, { useState } from 'react';
import { EditorState } from 'draft-js';
import { Editor } from 'react-draft-wysiwyg';
import 'react-draft-wysiwyg/dist/react-draft-wysiwyg.css';

const MyEditor = () => {
  const [editorState, setEditorState] = useState(EditorState.createEmpty());

  return (
    <Editor
      editorState={editorState}
      onEditorStateChange={setEditorState}
    />
  );
};

export default MyEditor;

Image Upload

This code sample shows how to handle image uploads in the editor. The uploadImageCallBack function processes the image file and returns a promise with the image URL.

import React, { useState } from 'react';
import { EditorState } from 'draft-js';
import { Editor } from 'react-draft-wysiwyg';
import 'react-draft-wysiwyg/dist/react-draft-wysiwyg.css';

const MyEditor = () => {
  const [editorState, setEditorState] = useState(EditorState.createEmpty());

  const uploadImageCallBack = (file) => {
    return new Promise(
      (resolve, reject) => {
        const reader = new FileReader();
        reader.onloadend = () => resolve({ data: { link: reader.result } });
        reader.readAsDataURL(file);
      }
    );
  };

  return (
    <Editor
      editorState={editorState}
      onEditorStateChange={setEditorState}
      toolbar={{
        image: {
          uploadCallback: uploadImageCallBack,
          previewImage: true,
        },
      }}
    />
  );
};

export default MyEditor;

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README

React Draft Wysiwyg

A Wysiwyg editor built using ReactJS and DraftJS libraries. Demo Page.

Features

• Configurable toolbar with option to add/remove controls.
• Option to change the order of the controls in the toolbar.
• Option to add custom controls to the toolbar.
• Option to change styles and icons in the toolbar.
• Option to show toolbar only when editor is focused.
• Support for inline styles: Bold, Italic, Underline, StrikeThrough, Code, Subscript, Superscript.
• Support for block types: Paragraph, H1 - H6, Blockquote, Code.
• Support for setting font-size and font-family.
• Support for ordered / unordered lists and indenting.
• Support for text-alignment.
• Support for coloring text or background.
• Support for adding / editing links
• Choice of more than 150 emojis.
• Support for mentions.
• Support for hashtags.
• Support for adding / uploading images.
• Support for aligning images, setting height, width.
• Support for Embedded links, flexibility to set height and width.
• Option provided to remove added styling.
• Option of undo and redo.
• Configurable behavior for RTL and Spellcheck.
• Support for placeholder.
• Support for WAI-ARIA Support attributes
• Using editor as controlled or un-controlled React component.
• Support to convert Editor Content to HTML, JSON, Markdown.
• Support to convert the HTML generated by the editor back to editor content.
• Support for internationalization.

Installing

The package can be installed from npm react-draft-wysiwyg

$ npm install --save react-draft-wysiwyg draft-js

Getting started

Editor can be used as simple React Component:

import { Editor } from 'react-draft-wysiwyg';
import 'react-draft-wysiwyg/dist/react-draft-wysiwyg.css';
<Editor
  editorState={editorState}
  toolbarClassName="toolbarClassName"
  wrapperClassName="wrapperClassName"
  editorClassName="editorClassName"
  onEditorStateChange={this.onEditorStateChange}
/>

Docs

For more documentation check here.

Questions Discussions

For discussions join public channel #rd_wysiwyg in DraftJS Slack Organization.

Thanks

Original motivation and sponsorship for this work came from iPaoo. I am thankful to them for allowing the Editor to be open-sourced.

License

MIT.