Wondering if anyone has figured out a good integration for a rich-text editor in the scaffolded RW form. I’m trying to figure out how best to add one but still utilize RW form functionality like validation.
Also, how to enable the data to be converted to “savable” information in the database.
I’ve been experimenting with Draft.js but not sure how to work through the above barriers.
I have not tackled this problem myself and this may be a really silly suggestion, but awhile ago I discovered an MDN page that gives a really simple but functional rich text editor that’s done entirely with vanilla javascript.
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Rich Text Editor</title>
<script type="text/javascript">
var oDoc, sDefTxt;
function initDoc() {
oDoc = document.getElementById("textBox");
sDefTxt = oDoc.innerHTML;
if (document.compForm.switchMode.checked) { setDocMode(true); }
}
function formatDoc(sCmd, sValue) {
if (validateMode()) { document.execCommand(sCmd, false, sValue); oDoc.focus(); }
}
function validateMode() {
if (!document.compForm.switchMode.checked) { return true ; }
alert("Uncheck \"Show HTML\".");
oDoc.focus();
return false;
}
function setDocMode(bToSource) {
var oContent;
if (bToSource) {
oContent = document.createTextNode(oDoc.innerHTML);
oDoc.innerHTML = "";
var oPre = document.createElement("pre");
oDoc.contentEditable = false;
oPre.id = "sourceText";
oPre.contentEditable = true;
oPre.appendChild(oContent);
oDoc.appendChild(oPre);
document.execCommand("defaultParagraphSeparator", false, "div");
} else {
if (document.all) {
oDoc.innerHTML = oDoc.innerText;
} else {
oContent = document.createRange();
oContent.selectNodeContents(oDoc.firstChild);
oDoc.innerHTML = oContent.toString();
}
oDoc.contentEditable = true;
}
oDoc.focus();
}
function printDoc() {
if (!validateMode()) { return; }
var oPrntWin = window.open("","_blank","width=450,height=470,left=400,top=100,menubar=yes,toolbar=no,location=no,scrollbars=yes");
oPrntWin.document.open();
oPrntWin.document.write("<!doctype html><html><head><title>Print<\/title><\/head><body onload=\"print();\">" + oDoc.innerHTML + "<\/body><\/html>");
oPrntWin.document.close();
}
</script>
<style type="text/css">
.intLink { cursor: pointer; }
img.intLink { border: 0; }
#toolBar1 select { font-size:10px; }
#textBox {
width: 540px;
height: 200px;
border: 1px #000000 solid;
padding: 12px;
overflow: scroll;
}
#textBox #sourceText {
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
min-width: 498px;
min-height: 200px;
}
#editMode label { cursor: pointer; }
</style>
</head>
<body onload="initDoc();">
<form name="compForm" method="post" action="sample.php" onsubmit="if(validateMode()){this.myDoc.value=oDoc.innerHTML;return true;}return false;">
<input type="hidden" name="myDoc">
<div id="toolBar1">
<select onchange="formatDoc('formatblock',this[this.selectedIndex].value);this.selectedIndex=0;">
<option selected>- formatting -</option>
<option value="h1">Title 1 <h1></option>
<option value="h2">Title 2 <h2></option>
<option value="h3">Title 3 <h3></option>
<option value="h4">Title 4 <h4></option>
<option value="h5">Title 5 <h5></option>
<option value="h6">Subtitle <h6></option>
<option value="p">Paragraph <p></option>
<option value="pre">Preformatted <pre></option>
</select>
<select onchange="formatDoc('fontname',this[this.selectedIndex].value);this.selectedIndex=0;">
<option class="heading" selected>- font -</option>
<option>Arial</option>
<option>Arial Black</option>
<option>Courier New</option>
<option>Times New Roman</option>
</select>
<select onchange="formatDoc('fontsize',this[this.selectedIndex].value);this.selectedIndex=0;">
<option class="heading" selected>- size -</option>
<option value="1">Very small</option>
<option value="2">A bit small</option>
<option value="3">Normal</option>
<option value="4">Medium-large</option>
<option value="5">Big</option>
<option value="6">Very big</option>
<option value="7">Maximum</option>
</select>
<select onchange="formatDoc('forecolor',this[this.selectedIndex].value);this.selectedIndex=0;">
<option class="heading" selected>- color -</option>
<option value="red">Red</option>
<option value="blue">Blue</option>
<option value="green">Green</option>
<option value="black">Black</option>
</select>
<select onchange="formatDoc('backcolor',this[this.selectedIndex].value);this.selectedIndex=0;">
<option class="heading" selected>- background -</option>
<option value="red">Red</option>
<option value="green">Green</option>
<option value="black">Black</option>
</select>
</div>
<div id="toolBar2">
<img class="intLink" title="Clean" onclick="if(validateMode()&&confirm('Are you sure?')){oDoc.innerHTML=sDefTxt};" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhFgAWAIQbAD04KTRLYzFRjlldZl9vj1dusY14WYODhpWIbbSVFY6O7IOXw5qbms+wUbCztca0ccS4kdDQjdTLtMrL1O3YitHa7OPcsd/f4PfvrvDv8Pv5xv///////////////////yH5BAEKAB8ALAAAAAAWABYAAAV84CeOZGmeaKqubMteyzK547QoBcFWTm/jgsHq4rhMLoxFIehQQSAWR+Z4IAyaJ0kEgtFoLIzLwRE4oCQWrxoTOTAIhMCZ0tVgMBQKZHAYyFEWEV14eQ8IflhnEHmFDQkAiSkQCI2PDC4QBg+OAJc0ewadNCOgo6anqKkoIQA7" />
<img class="intLink" title="Print" onclick="printDoc();" src="data:image/png;base64,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">
<img class="intLink" title="Undo" onclick="formatDoc('undo');" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhFgAWAOMKADljwliE33mOrpGjuYKl8aezxqPD+7/I19DV3NHa7P///////////////////////yH5BAEKAA8ALAAAAAAWABYAAARR8MlJq7046807TkaYeJJBnES4EeUJvIGapWYAC0CsocQ7SDlWJkAkCA6ToMYWIARGQF3mRQVIEjkkSVLIbSfEwhdRIH4fh/DZMICe3/C4nBQBADs=" />
<img class="intLink" title="Redo" onclick="formatDoc('redo');" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhFgAWAMIHAB1ChDljwl9vj1iE34Kl8aPD+7/I1////yH5BAEKAAcALAAAAAAWABYAAANKeLrc/jDKSesyphi7SiEgsVXZEATDICqBVJjpqWZt9NaEDNbQK1wCQsxlYnxMAImhyDoFAElJasRRvAZVRqqQXUy7Cgx4TC6bswkAOw==" />
<img class="intLink" title="Remove formatting" onclick="formatDoc('removeFormat')" src="data:image/png;base64,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">
<img class="intLink" title="Bold" onclick="formatDoc('bold');" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhFgAWAID/AMDAwAAAACH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAAWABYAQAInhI+pa+H9mJy0LhdgtrxzDG5WGFVk6aXqyk6Y9kXvKKNuLbb6zgMFADs=" />
<img class="intLink" title="Italic" onclick="formatDoc('italic');" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhFgAWAKEDAAAAAF9vj5WIbf///yH5BAEAAAMALAAAAAAWABYAAAIjnI+py+0Po5x0gXvruEKHrF2BB1YiCWgbMFIYpsbyTNd2UwAAOw==" />
<img class="intLink" title="Underline" onclick="formatDoc('underline');" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhFgAWAKECAAAAAF9vj////////yH5BAEAAAIALAAAAAAWABYAAAIrlI+py+0Po5zUgAsEzvEeL4Ea15EiJJ5PSqJmuwKBEKgxVuXWtun+DwxCCgA7" />
<img class="intLink" title="Left align" onclick="formatDoc('justifyleft');" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhFgAWAID/AMDAwAAAACH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAAWABYAQAIghI+py+0Po5y02ouz3jL4D4JMGELkGYxo+qzl4nKyXAAAOw==" />
<img class="intLink" title="Center align" onclick="formatDoc('justifycenter');" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhFgAWAID/AMDAwAAAACH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAAWABYAQAIfhI+py+0Po5y02ouz3jL4D4JOGI7kaZ5Bqn4sycVbAQA7" />
<img class="intLink" title="Right align" onclick="formatDoc('justifyright');" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhFgAWAID/AMDAwAAAACH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAAWABYAQAIghI+py+0Po5y02ouz3jL4D4JQGDLkGYxouqzl43JyVgAAOw==" />
<img class="intLink" title="Numbered list" onclick="formatDoc('insertorderedlist');" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhFgAWAMIGAAAAADljwliE35GjuaezxtHa7P///////yH5BAEAAAcALAAAAAAWABYAAAM2eLrc/jDKSespwjoRFvggCBUBoTFBeq6QIAysQnRHaEOzyaZ07Lu9lUBnC0UGQU1K52s6n5oEADs=" />
<img class="intLink" title="Dotted list" onclick="formatDoc('insertunorderedlist');" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhFgAWAMIGAAAAAB1ChF9vj1iE33mOrqezxv///////yH5BAEAAAcALAAAAAAWABYAAAMyeLrc/jDKSesppNhGRlBAKIZRERBbqm6YtnbfMY7lud64UwiuKnigGQliQuWOyKQykgAAOw==" />
<img class="intLink" title="Quote" onclick="formatDoc('formatblock','blockquote');" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhFgAWAIQXAC1NqjFRjkBgmT9nqUJnsk9xrFJ7u2R9qmKBt1iGzHmOrm6Sz4OXw3Odz4Cl2ZSnw6KxyqO306K63bG70bTB0rDI3bvI4P///////////////////////////////////yH5BAEKAB8ALAAAAAAWABYAAAVP4CeOZGmeaKqubEs2CekkErvEI1zZuOgYFlakECEZFi0GgTGKEBATFmJAVXweVOoKEQgABB9IQDCmrLpjETrQQlhHjINrTq/b7/i8fp8PAQA7" />
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</div>
<div id="textBox" contenteditable="true"><p>Lorem ipsum</p></div>
<p id="editMode"><input type="checkbox" name="switchMode" id="switchBox" onchange="setDocMode(this.checked);" /> <label for="switchBox">Show HTML</label></p>
<p><input type="submit" value="Send" /></p>
</form>
</body>
</html>
I played around with it just a bit and wrote a little blog post about it. It seemed like a pretty cool way to get around having to use any third party library, but I’m sure it’s very limited.
@ajcwebdev and @rob thanks for the quick replies! It seems like each option has it’s merits so I’ll be exploring both.
I’m trying to build my current project fairly quickly so Trix is probably a good solution for me to just drop in.
For anyone who finds this down the line and is searching for a good rich-text editor, I’d recommend also looking into react-quill:
I ended up migrating to it from Trix, since there were two areas that I found Trix falling short: (1) the ability to easily add H2’s in content and (2) the ability to add tables easily. react-quill comes with H2’s out of the box, can support tables with another module, and maintains state in HTML, which makes creating, updating, and displaying rich text from your database trivial.
How did you bind the ReactQuill-component to the props.post.body? I can’t figure it out.
The validation works, but getting/setting the value does not.
In PostForm
<WyiswygField label="body" name="body" content={props.post?.body} validation={{ required: true }} />
Custom Field
const WyiswygField = ({ label, name, content, validation }) => {
const [value, setValue] = useState(content)
const register = useRegister({
name,
validation: {...validation }
})
const { className: labelClassName, style: labelStyle } = useErrorStyles({
className: `my-label-class`,
errorClassName: `my-label-error-class`,
name,
})
const { className: inputClassName, style: inputStyle } = useErrorStyles({
className: `my-input-class`,
errorClassName: `my-input-error-class`,
name,
})
return (
<>
<label className={labelClassName} style={labelStyle}>{label}</label>
<ReactQuill
{...register}
defaultValue={value} onChange={setValue}
/>
<FieldError name={name}/>
</>
)
}
Hey @betty – apologies but I unfortunately haven’t worked with react-quill much at all since I posted this 
, so I’m not sure what the issue would be. Sorry!
I was able to make the binding work by passing formMethods’s setValue to the rich text editor component.
You need to pass useForm’s return to the <FormProvider>, so in the form:
const StoreForm = (props) => {
const formMethods = useForm()
return (
<div className="rw-form-wrapper">
<Form
onSubmit={onSubmit}
error={props.error}
formMethods={formMethods}
>
<RichTextEditor
label="Description"
name="description"
content={props.store?.description}
validation={{ required: true }}
updateFn={formMethods.setValue}
/>
</form>
And in your rich text component:
const RichTextEditor = ({ label, name, content, validation, updateFn }) => {
return (
<>
<ReactQuill
defaultValue={content}
{...register}
onChange={(val) => updateFn(name, val)}
onBlur={(val) => updateFn(name, val)}
/>
</>
)
}
Mantine also uses Quill and has done so quite succesfully. There are some limitations though ~ (like clearing the content works only with ref etc.) you can check it out here: mantine/src/mantine-rte at master · mantinedev/mantine · GitHub
Got it working, thanks so much!
You’re welcome!
@david, I really appreciate your insightful input!
I would like to add that instead of passing the setValue reference via props, you can utilize the useFormContext hook to access it directly inside the component. This allows for greater independence of the component from the form code.
For instance:
import { useRegister, useFormContext } from '@redwoodjs/forms'
const RichTextEditor = ({ label, name, content, validation}) => {
const { setValue } = useFormContext()
const register = useRegister({ name, validation })
return (
<>
<ReactQuill
defaultValue={content}
{...register}
onChange={(val) => setValue(name, val)}
onBlur={(val) => setValue(name, val)}
/>
</>
)
}
Thought I’d chime in too, since @morganmspencer did.
I’m using a custom build of Plate, which is built on top of Slate. Slate is an editor framework with a plugin architecture. Plate adds an opinionated set of functionality to it (like bold, quotes, etc.).
Quill serializes to HTML so you need to sanitize its output server side. You can capture the raw internal data structure Quill uses (Delta) and serialize it, but it also includes the editing history.
Slate was built based on ideas from Quill, Draft, and ProseMirror. PM has its own virtual DOM and isn’t natural to use with React, but it’s author is highly competent (he wrote and maintains CodeMirror also). Slate has its own JSON serialization format that is customizable. I’m serializing it to Portable Text, a format Sanity (a headless CMS vendor) created and maintains open source tooling around. You can serialize to Markdown easily (or HTML if you really want), which is nice.
My reasons for using Slate are:
mjml markup, or to add embedded content shortcodes (like WordPress) that users can enter in longform text.Slate has a learning curve, but so do Quill and ProseMirror. Someone else mentioned Manitine - it’s pretty simple to get going and is built on TipTap. The latter is a freemium model, with a commercial Pro plan, so it doesn’t work for my project (open source library). You have to pay per seat with TipTap for things like the ability to add your own extensions and collaboration.
DraftJS was a second choice to Slate for me. It’s Facebook’s in-house library. I went with Slate because I felt like the architecture was better designed (from the viewpoint of the collaboration and plugin API), that Draft is tailored to Facebook’s unique needs rather than a wider developer audience’s needs, and that it’s possible Facebook loses interest in maintaining it or has internal chaos like they did with Flow.