react-quill

What is react-quill?

react-quill is a React component for Quill, a powerful rich text editor. It provides a customizable and extensible interface for creating and editing content with a variety of formatting options.

What are react-quill's main functionalities?

Basic Usage

This code demonstrates the basic usage of react-quill. It imports the necessary modules, sets up a state to hold the editor's content, and renders the ReactQuill component.

import React, { useState } from 'react';
import ReactQuill from 'react-quill';
import 'react-quill/dist/quill.snow.css';

function MyEditor() {
  const [value, setValue] = useState('');
  return (
    <ReactQuill value={value} onChange={setValue} />
  );
}

export default MyEditor;

Custom Toolbar

This code demonstrates how to create a custom toolbar for the react-quill editor. It defines a CustomToolbar component and uses it in the MyEditor component, specifying the custom toolbar in the modules prop.

import React, { useState } from 'react';
import ReactQuill, { Quill } from 'react-quill';
import 'react-quill/dist/quill.snow.css';

const CustomToolbar = () => (
  <div id="toolbar">
    <button className="ql-bold">Bold</button>
    <button className="ql-italic">Italic</button>
    <select className="ql-color">
      <option value="red"></option>
      <option value="green"></option>
      <option value="blue"></option>
    </select>
  </div>
);

function MyEditor() {
  const [value, setValue] = useState('');
  return (
    <div>
      <CustomToolbar />
      <ReactQuill value={value} onChange={setValue} modules={{ toolbar: '#toolbar' }} />
    </div>
  );
}

export default MyEditor;

Formats and Modules

This code demonstrates how to specify custom formats and modules for the react-quill editor. It defines the formats and modules arrays and passes them as props to the ReactQuill component.

import React, { useState } from 'react';
import ReactQuill from 'react-quill';
import 'react-quill/dist/quill.snow.css';

const formats = [
  'header', 'bold', 'italic', 'underline', 'strike', 'blockquote',
  'list', 'bullet', 'indent',
  'link', 'image'
];

const modules = {
  toolbar: [
    [{ 'header': '1' }, { 'header': '2' }, { 'font': [] }],
    [{ 'list': 'ordered'}, { 'list': 'bullet' }],
    ['bold', 'italic', 'underline', 'strike', 'blockquote'],
    ['link', 'image'],
    [{ 'align': [] }]
  ]
};

function MyEditor() {
  const [value, setValue] = useState('');
  return (
    <ReactQuill value={value} onChange={setValue} modules={modules} formats={formats} />
  );
}

export default MyEditor;

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README

React-Quill

A Quill component for React.

See the live demo.

Warning: The project is still in alpha stage. Use with caution.

1. Quick start
2. API reference
3. Building and testing
4. Changelog
5. License

Quick start

1. Use straight away:

   var React = require('react');
   var ReactQuill = require('react-quill');
   
   var MyComponent = React.createClass({
     /* ... */
   
     render: function() {
       return (
         <ReactQuill value={this.state.value} />
       );
     }
   });
   

2. Customize a few settings:

   var MyComponent = React.createClass({
     /* ... */
   
     onTextChange: function(value) {
       this.setState({ text:value });
     },
   
     render: function() {
       return (
         <ReactQuill theme="snow"
                     value={this.state.text}
                     onChange={this.onTextChange} />
       );
     }
   });
   

3. Custom controls:

   var MyComponent = React.createClass({
     /* ... */
   
     render: function() {
       return (
         <ReactQuill>
           <ReactQuill.Toolbar key="toolbar"
                               ref="toolbar"
                               items={ReactQuill.Toolbar.defaultItems} />
           <div key="editor"
                ref="editor"
                className="quill-contents"
                dangerouslySetInnerHTML={{__html:this.getEditorContents()}} />
         </ReactQuill>
       );
     }
   });
   

4. Mixing in:

   var MyComponent = React.createClass({
     mixins: [ ReactQuill.Mixin ],
   
     componentDidMount: function() {
       var editor = this.createEditor(
         this.getEditorElement(),
         this.getEditorConfig()
       );
       this.setState({ editor:editor });
     },
   
     componentWillReceiveProps: function(nextProps) {
       if ('value' in nextProps && nextProps.value !== this.props.value) {
         this.setEditorContents(this.state.editor, nextProps.value);
       }
     },
   
     /* ... */
   });
   

   See component.js for a fully fleshed-out example.

API reference

ReactQuill accepts a few props:

id : ID to be applied to the DOM element.

className : Classes to be applied to the DOM element.

value : Value for the editor as a controlled component.

defaultValue : Initial value for the editor as an uncontrolled component.

readOnly : If true, the editor won't allow changing its contents.

toolbar : A list of toolbar items to use as custom configuration for the toolbar. Defaults (that also double as reference) are available as ReactQuill.Toolbar.defaultItems and ReactQuill.Toolbar.defaultColors. See also the Toolbar module over the Quill documentation for more information on the inner workings.

formats : An array of formats to be enabled during editing. All implemented formats are enabled by default. See Formats for a list.

styles : An object with custom CSS styles to be added to the editor. See configuration for details.

theme : The name of the theme to apply to the editor. Defaults to base.

pollInterval : Interval in ms between checks for local changes in editor contents.

onChange(value) : Called back with the new contents of the editor after change.

Building and testing

You can run the automated test suite:

$ npm test

And build a minificated version of the source:

$ npm run build

More tasks are available on the Makefile:

lint: lints the source
spec: runs the test specs
coverage: runs the code coverage test
test: lint, spec and coverage threshold test
build: builds the minified version

Changelog

v0.1.0

• Added support for toolbar separators.
• Added support for font family selectors.
• Updated the default toolbar to match Quill's.
• Updated Quill to v0.19.12.

v0.0.6

• Added keywords for inclusion in React.parts.

v0.0.5

• Default empty content for components with no value.
• Fixes wrong QuillToolbar propType.

v0.0.4

• Added color toggle to toolbar (@chrismcv)
• Exporting default item sets on QuillToolbar
• Fixed QuillComponent only accepting a single child.

Full changelog

Roadmap

• Support updates in editor life-cycle
• First-class support for modules
• Better API for custom controls?
• Delta updates

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2015, zenoamaro [e-mail]

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Changelog

v0.1.0

• Added support for toolbar separators.
• Added support for font family selectors.
• Updated the default toolbar to match Quill's.
• Updated Quill to v0.19.12.