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.

1. Quick start
2. Styles and themes
3. Bundling with Webpack
4. API reference
5. Building and testing
6. Changelog
7. 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. Bind to the onChange event and customize a few settings:

   /*
   Include `quill.snow.css` to use the editor's standard theme. For example,
   depending on the structure of your app, you could do something like this:
   
   <link rel="stylesheet" href="../node_modules/react-quill/dist/quill.snow.css">
   */
   
   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.

Styles and themes

The Quill editor supports themes.

It includes a full-fledged theme, called snow, that is Quill's standard appearance, and a base theme containing only the bare essentials to allow modules like toolbars or tooltips to work.

These stylesheets can be found in the Quill distribution, but for convenience they are also linked among React Quill's dists. In a common case you would activate a theme like this:

<ReactQuill theme='snow' />

And then link the appropriate stylesheet:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="../node_modules/react-quill/dist/quill.snow.css">

This may vary depending how application is structured, directories or otherwise. For example, if you use a CSS pre-processor like SASS, you may want to import that stylesheet inside your own.

Quill will include a set of basic styles upon instantiation, so that including quill.base.css is not needed. If you would instead like to avoid this style injection, so to include quill.base.css manually or use your own styles, pass false (not just a falsy value) as styles:

<ReactQuill styles={false}>

Otherwise, you can set this to an object containing selectors and rules, that will be injected inside the document by Quill.

Bundling with Webpack

Quill ships only a pre-built javascript file, so Webpack will complain:

Error: ./~/react-quill/~/quill/dist/quill.js
Critical dependencies:
6:478-485 This seems to be a pre-built javascript file. Though this is possible, it's not recommended. Try to require the original source to get better results.
@ ./~/react-quill/~/quill/dist/quill.js 6:478-485

The warning is harmless, but if you want to silence it you can avoid parsing Quill by adding this to your Webpack configuration:

module: {
  // Shut off warnings about using pre-built javascript files
  // as Quill.js unfortunately ships one as its `main`.
  noParse: /node_modules\/quill\/dist/
}

See #7 for more details.

API reference

Exports

ReactQuill.Mixin : Provides the bridge between React and Quill. ReactQuill implements this mixin; in the same way you can use it to build your own component, or replace it to implement a new core for the default component.

ReactQuill.Toolbar : The component that renders the basic ReactQuill toolbar. The default collection of items and color swatches is available as ReactQuill.Toolbar.defaultItems and ReactQuill.Toolbar.defaultColors respectively.

ReactQuill.Quill : The Quill namespace on which you can call registerModule and such.

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. Note that due to limitations in Quill, this is actually a semi-controlled mode, meaning that the edit is not prevented, but changing value will still replace the contents.

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

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

modules : An object specifying what modules are enabled, and their configuration. See the modules section over the Quill documentation for more information on what modules are available.

toolbar : A list of toolbar items to use as custom configuration for the toolbar. Pass false to disable the toolbar completely. Defaults items are available for reference in 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. Also accepts definitions of custom formats:

[
  "list",
  "bullet",
  "bold",
  "italic",
  { name: "h1", tag: "H1", prepare: "heading", type: "line" },
  { name: "h2", tag: "H2", prepare: "heading", type: "line" },
  { name: "h3", tag: "H3", prepare: "heading", type: "line" }
];

style : An object with custom CSS rules to apply on the editor's container. Rules should be in React's "camelCased" naming style.

styles : An object with custom CSS selectors and rules to add to the editor. Neither should be in "camelCased" style. Pass false to prevent Quill from injecting any style at all (except for text formats). 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(content, delta, source, editor) : Called back with the new contents of the editor after change. It will be passed the HTML contents of the editor, a delta object expressing the change-set itself, the source of the change, and finally a read-only proxy to editor accessors such as getText().

onChangeSelection(range, source, editor) : Called back with the new selected range, or null when unfocused. It will be passed the selection range, the source of the change, and finally a read-only proxy to editor accessors such as getBounds().

onKeyPress(event) : Called after a key has been pressed and released. : Note that, like its native counterpart, this won't be called for special keys such as shift or enter. If you need those, hook onto onKeyDown or onKeyUp.

onKeyDown(event) : Called after a key has been pressed, but before it is released. : Note that, due to how Quill works, it's possible that you won't receive events for keys such as enter, backspace or delete. If that's the case, try hooking onto onKeyUp instead.

onKeyUp(event) : Called after a key has been released.

Methods

If you have a ref to a ReactQuill node, you will be able to invoke the following methods:

focus() : Focuses the editor.

blur() : Removes focus from the editor.

getEditor() : Returns the Quill instance that backs the editor. While you can freely use this to access methods such as getText(), please avoid from imperatively manipulating the instance.

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

v0.4.0

This release finally adds support for React 0.14. ⚠️ Shims to support older versions of React have been removed.

• React 0.14 support (@jacktrades, #49)
• Removed shims for React 0.12 and 0.13
• Bumped Quill.js to v0.20.1
• Normal and smaller sizes are not swapped anymore. (#63)
• Various toolbar choice items are now correctly ordered.
• Added image tooltips to the default set of modules (@kairxa, #54)
• Fixed extra white-space in classnames (@asiniy, #67)
• Published the Quill namespace on ReactQuill (@Sajam, #60)
• Quill stylesheets are now linked to dist/ for convenience. (#70)
• Exposed editor accessor methods in change events. (#33)

v0.3.0

• Bumped Quill.js to v0.20.0
• Exposed focus and blur public methods from component.
• Exposed getEditor public method to retrieve the backing Quill instance from the component.
• Added callbacks for listening to keyboard events.
• Added tooltips for toolbar choice controls (@bird512).
• Added support for child nodes in toolbar items (@1000hz).
• Added support for custom formats in the configuration (@csk157).
• Added an option to disable the toolbar entirely by passing false to toolbar.
• Added an option to disable styles entirely by passing false to style (@kkerr1).
• Fixed an issue where the Quill would duplicate React IDs inside the toolbar leading to errors. Fixes #15.
• Fixes an issue where the editor could be used while null (@brucedlukens).
• Fixes an issue where null would be set on the editor. Fixes #48.
• Fixes an issue where the editor would be instantiated with the wrong value. Fixes #50.
• Avoiding parsing Quill's dist directory with webpack.

Full changelog

Roadmap

• ES6 rewrite
• React 0.14 support
• First-class support for modules
• Better API for custom controls
• Tests!

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2016, 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.

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