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.
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).
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The world's #1 open source rich text editor.
Used and trusted by millions of developers, TinyMCE is the world’s most customizable, scalable, and flexible rich text editor. We’ve helped launch the likes of Atlassian, Medium, Evernote (and lots more that we can’t tell you), by empowering them to create exceptional content and experiences for their users.
With more than 350M+ downloads every year, we’re also one of the most trusted enterprise-grade open source HTML editors on the internet. There’s currently more than 100M+ products worldwide, powered by Tiny. As a high powered WYSIWYG editor, TinyMCE is built to scale, designed to innovate, and thrives on delivering results to difficult edge-cases.
You can access a full featured demo of TinyMCE in the docs on the TinyMCE website.
Getting started with the TinyMCE rich text editor is easy, and for simple configurations can be done in less than 5 minutes.
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TinyMCE provides a range of configuration options that allow you to integrate it into your application. Start customizing with a basic setup.
Configure it for one of three modes of editing:
TinyMCE is easily integrated into your projects with the help of components such as:
With over 29 integrations, and 400+ APIs, see the TinyMCE docs for a full list of editor integrations.
It is easy to configure the UI of your rich text editor to match the design of your site, product or application. Due to its flexibility, you can configure the editor with as much or as little functionality as you like, depending on your requirements.
With 50+ powerful plugins available, and content editable as the basis of TinyMCE, adding additional functionality is as simple as including a single line of code.
Realizing the full power of most plugins requires only a few lines more.
Sometimes your editor requirements can be quite unique, and you need the freedom and flexibility to innovate. Thanks to TinyMCE being open source, you can view the source code and develop your own extensions for custom functionality to meet your own requirements.
The TinyMCE API is exposed to make it easier for you to write custom functionality that fits within the existing framework of TinyMCE UI components.
For the professional software teams that require more in-depth efficiency, compliance or collaborative features built to enterprise-grade standards, please get in touch with our team.
Tiny also offers dedicated SLAs and support for professional development teams.
In 2019 the decision was made to transition our codebase to a monorepo. For information on compiling and contributing, see: contribution guidelines.
As an open source product, we encourage and support the active development of our software.
Visit the TinyMCE website and check out the TinyMCE documentation.
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The npm package tinymce receives a total of 381,822 weekly downloads. As such, tinymce popularity was classified as popular.
We found that tinymce demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 3 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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