tinymce

What is tinymce?

TinyMCE is a powerful and flexible rich text editor that can be embedded in web applications. It provides a wide range of features for text formatting, media embedding, and content management.

What are tinymce's main functionalities?

Basic Text Formatting

This initializes TinyMCE on a textarea with the ID 'mytextarea', enabling basic text formatting options like bold, italic, underline, and more.

tinymce.init({ selector: '#mytextarea' });

Image and Media Embedding

This configuration allows users to embed images and media files into the text editor. The 'image' and 'media' plugins are included, and the toolbar is updated to include buttons for these functionalities.

tinymce.init({ selector: '#mytextarea', plugins: 'image media', toolbar: 'image media' });

Custom Toolbar

This example shows how to customize the toolbar with specific buttons for undo, redo, text styles, alignment, and indentation.

tinymce.init({ selector: '#mytextarea', toolbar: 'undo redo | styleselect | bold italic | alignleft aligncenter alignright alignjustify | outdent indent' });

Content Style Customization

This configuration customizes the content style within the editor, setting the font family and size for the text.

tinymce.init({ selector: '#mytextarea', content_style: 'body { font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px }' });

Autosave Plugin

This example demonstrates the use of the 'autosave' plugin, which automatically saves the content at specified intervals (every 30 seconds in this case).

tinymce.init({ selector: '#mytextarea', plugins: 'autosave', autosave_interval: '30s' });

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README

tinymce-dist

Production ready minified version of TinyMCE excluding the source code, build tools and unit tests. If you need the full source code go to the main repository instead.

Tags

Each release has it's own tag using the semver standard. This means you can checkout a specific version using git clone.

git clone -b <version> git://github.com/tinymce/tinymce-dist.git

Git submodule

You can add TinyMCE as a submodule to your existing repository.

git submodule add [e-mail]:tinymce/tinymce-dist.git tinymce

Package managers

You can also install TinyMCE using various package managers.