What is Rich Text Editor?

What is Rich Text Editor?

A Rich Text Editor is an editor tool used in an application and webpages, which provides interface for creating and formatting the rich text content. The editor allows the users to experience the real time preview of the work while editing in the content editable area. Hence, it is also referred as WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor.

Use cases

The editor provides an efficient editing experience in desktop and mobile platforms. So, it is widely used to create blogs, forum posts, notes sections, support tickets (incidents), comment sections, messaging applications, and more.

Syncfusion JavaScript Rich Text Editor

The Syncfusion JavaScript Rich Text Editor is a feature-rich WYSIWYG HTML editor and WYSIWYG Markdown editor. It supports editing both HTML and Markdown formats with a live preview of the editable area. It has a variety of tools to edit and format rich text content and returns valid HTML markup or Markdown (MD) content.

The control has following key features:

• It allows users to insert images, links, tables, and lists, all in a modular architecture making the control lightweight when used in your application.
• The editor provides wide customization capabilities and allows third party integration while maintaining an accessible and globalized content.
• The editor supports the inline mode, which hides the toolbar initially and display only when the editable area is clicked or selected. The toolbar also supports floating, multiline and expandable display options.
• The editor typically allows users to use clipboard operations (cut, copy, and paste). It also offers built-in options to paste content from Microsoft Word and Microsoft Outlook.
• The editor manages the undo action history to store users’ editing actions, and to customize the undo steps.
• The editor is a form control that seamlessly supports HTML forms and obtains values on form submission actions.
• The editor is touch-friendly and built ground up for cross browser compatibility and support for mobile devices.

For more information about the available features, refer to this site.

For documentation, click here.

For demo examples, click here.