Editor Modes in Angular Rich Text Editor Component

21 Aug 20256 minutes to read

The Rich Text Editor component allows you to create and edit content, returning it as either valid HTML or Markdown (MD). It supports the following two editing formats:

• HTML editor
• Markdown editor

HTML editor

Rich Text Editor is a WYSIWYG editing control for formatting the word content as HTML.

HTML editing is the default mode of the Rich Text Editor. In this mode, you can format content using the available toolbar commands, and the editor will return valid HTML markup. To explicitly set this mode, set the editorMode property as HTML.

To use HTML editing feature, inject HtmlEditorService in the provider section.

/**
* RTE HTML Editor functionality Sample
*/
import { Component } from '@angular/core';
import { ToolbarService, LinkService, ImageService, HtmlEditorService } from '@syncfusion/ej2-angular-richtexteditor';
@Component({
    selector: 'app-root',
    template: `<ejs-richtexteditor #defaultRTE id='defaultRTE'>
                <ng-template #valueTemplate>
                    <p>The Rich Text Editor component is WYSIWYG ("what you see is what you get") editor
                    that provides the best user experience to create and update the content.
                    Users can format their content using standard toolbar commands.</p>

                    <p><b>Key features:</b></p>

                    <ul><li><p>Provides &lt;IFRAME&gt; and &lt;DIV&gt; modes</p></li>
                    <li><p>Capable of handling markdown editing.</p></li>
                    <li><p>Contains a modular library to load the necessary functionality on demand.</p></li>
                    <li><p>Provides a fully customizable toolbar.</p></li>
                    <li><p>Provides HTML view to edit the source directly for developers.</p></li>
                    <li><p>Supports third-party library integration.</p></li>
                    <li><p>Allows preview of modified content before saving it.</p></li>
                    <li><p>Handles images, hyperlinks, video, hyperlinks, uploads, etc.</p></li>
                    <li><p>Contains undo/redo manager.</p></li>
                    <li><p>Creates bulleted and numbered lists.</p></li>
                    </ul>
                </ng-template>
                </ejs-richtexteditor>`,
    providers: [ToolbarService, LinkService, ImageService, HtmlEditorService]
})
export class AppComponent  {

}

IFrame editor

The IFrame editor mode enables content editing within an iframe, isolating styles from the main page.

For more details, refer to the Iframe Editor documentation.

Markdown editor

To create or edit content in Markdown format, set the editorMode property value as Markdown.

The third-party library such as Marked or any other library is used to convert markdown into HTML content.

• The Supported Tags are h6, h5, h4, h3, h2, h1, blockquote, pre, p, ol, ul.
• The Supported Selection Tags are Bold, Italic, StrikeThrough, InlineCode, SubScript, SuperScript, UpperCase, LowerCase.
• The supported insert commands are Image, Link and Table.

For further details on Markdown editing, refer to the Markdown

    /**
    * RTE MarkDown Editor Sample
    */
    import { Component } from '@angular/core';
    import { ToolbarService, LinkService, ImageService, MarkdownEditorService } from '@syncfusion/ej2-angular-richtexteditor';
    @Component({
    selector: 'app-root',
    template: `<ejs-richtexteditor #rteMarkDown id='markDown' [editorMode]='mode'>
                <ng-template #valueTemplate>
                  ***Overview***
                  The Rich Text Editor component is WYSIWYG ("what you see is what you get") editor used to create, edit and return the content in valid HTML markup or markdown (MD) of the content.
                  The editor provides a standard toolbar to format content using its commands. Modular library features to load the necessary functionality on demand.
                  The toolbar contains commands to align the text, insert link, insert image, insert list, undo/redo operation, HTML view, and more.
                  ***Key features***
                  - *Mode*: Provides IFRAME and DIV mode.
                  - *Module*: Modular library to load the necessary functionality on demand.
                  - *Toolbar*: Provide a fully customizable toolbar.
                  - *Editing*: HTML view to edit the source directly for developers.
                  - *Third-party Integration*: Supports to integrate third-party library.
                  - *Preview*: Preview the modified content before saving it.
                  - *Tools*: Handling images, hyperlinks, video, uploads and more.
                  - *Undo and Redo*: Undo/redo manager.
                  - *Lists*:Creates bulleted and numbered list.
                </ng-template>
               </ejs-richtexteditor>`,
               providers: [ToolbarService, LinkService, ImageService, MarkdownEditorService]
})
export class AppComponent  {
  public mode: string = 'Markdown';
}

See also

• Markdown Editor