Es5 getting started in EJ2 JavaScript Rich text editor control

16 May 202524 minutes to read

The Essential JS 2 for JavaScript (global script) is an ES5 formatted pure JavaScript framework which can be directly used in latest web browsers.

Component Initialization

The Essential JS 2 JavaScript components can be initialized by using either of the following ways.

  • Using local script and style references in a HTML page.
  • Using CDN link for script and style reference.

Using local script and style references in a HTML page

Step 1: Create an app folder myapp for Essential JS 2 JavaScript components.

Step 2: You can get the global scripts and styles from the Essential Studio JavaScript (Essential JS 2) build installed location.

Syntax:

Script: **(installed location)**/Syncfusion/Essential Studio/{RELEASE_VERSION}/Essential JS 2/{PACKAGE_NAME}/dist/global/{PACKAGE_NAME}.min.js

Styles: **(installed location)**/Syncfusion/Essential Studio/{RELEASE_VERSION}/Essential JS 2/{PACKAGE_NAME}/styles/material.css

Example:

Script: C:/Program Files (x86)/Syncfusion/Essential Studio/15.4.30/Essential JS 2/ej2-richtexteditor/dist/global/ej2-richtexteditor.min.js

Styles: C:/Program Files (x86)/Syncfusion/Essential Studio/15.4.30/Essential JS 2/ej2-richtexteditor/styles/material.css

Step 3: Create a folder myapp/resources and copy/paste the global scripts and styles from the above installed location to myapp/resources location.

Step 4: Create a HTML page (index.html) in myapp location and add the Essentials JS 2 script and style references.

<!DOCTYPE html>
  <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
       <head>
        <title>Essential JS 2 Rich Text Editor</title>
        <!-- Essential JS 2 Rich Text Editor's dependent material theme -->
        <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-base/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
        <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-buttons/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
        <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-inputs/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
        <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-lists/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
        <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-popups/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
        <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-splitbuttons/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
        <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-navigations/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
        <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-filemanager/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
        <!-- Essential JS 2 Rich Text Editor material theme -->
        <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-richtexteditor/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

        <!-- Essential JS 2 Rich Text Editor's dependent script -->
        <script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-base/dist/global/ej2-base.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
        <script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-buttons/dist/global/ej2-buttons.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
        <script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-inputs/dist/global/ej2-inputs.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
        <script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-lists/dist/global/ej2-lists.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
        <script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-popups/dist/global/ej2-popups.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
        <script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-splitbuttons/dist/global/ej2-splitbuttons.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
        <script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-navigations/dist/global/ej2-navigations.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
        <script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-filemanager/dist/global/ej2-filemanager.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
        <!-- Essential JS 2 Rich Text Editor's global script -->
        <script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-richtexteditor/dist/global/ej2-richtexteditor.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
      </head>
       <body>
       </body>
  </html>

Step 5: Now, add the textarea element and initiate the Essential JS 2 Rich Text Editor component in the index.html by using following code

<!DOCTYPE html>
  <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
       <head>
        <title>Essential JS 2 Rich Text Editor</title>
        <!-- Essential JS 2 Rich Text Editor's dependent material theme -->
        <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-base/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
        <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-buttons/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
        <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-inputs/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
        <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-lists/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
        <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-popups/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
        <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-splitbuttons/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
        <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-navigations/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
        <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-filemanager/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
        <!-- Essential JS 2 Rich Text Editor material theme -->
        <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-richtexteditor/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

        <!-- Essential JS 2 Rich Text Editor's dependent script -->
        <script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-base/dist/global/ej2-base.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
        <script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-buttons/dist/global/ej2-buttons.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
        <script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-inputs/dist/global/ej2-inputs.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
        <script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-lists/dist/global/ej2-lists.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
        <script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-popups/dist/global/ej2-popups.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
        <script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-splitbuttons/dist/global/ej2-splitbuttons.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
        <script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-navigations/dist/global/ej2-navigations.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
        <script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-filemanager/dist/global/ej2-filemanager.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
        <!-- Essential JS 2 Rich Text Editor's global script -->
        <script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-richtexteditor/dist/global/ej2-richtexteditor.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</head>
       <body>
            <!--Element which will render as RTE-->
     <textarea id="defaultRTE">
     </textarea>
            <script>
                // initialize Rich Text Editor component
               var RichTextEditor = new ej.richtexteditor.RichTextEditor();
                // Render initialized Rich Text Editor.
                RichTextEditor.appendTo('#defaultRTE');
            </script>
       </body>
  </html>

Step 6: Now, run the index.html in web browser, it will render the Essential JS 2 Rich Text Editor component.

Step 1: Create an app folder myapp for the Essential JS 2 JavaScript components.

Step 2: The Essential JS 2 component’s global scripts and styles are already hosted in the below CDN link formats.

Syntax:

Script: http://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/{PACKAGE_NAME}/dist/global/{PACKAGE_NAME}.min.js

Styles: http://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/{PACKAGE_NAME}/styles/material.css

Example:

Script: http://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-richtexteditor/dist/global/ej2-richtexteditor.min.js

Styles: http://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-richtexteditor/styles/material.css

Step 3: Create a HTML page (index.html) in myapp location and add the CDN link references. Now, add the textarea element and initiate the Essential JS 2 Rich Text Editor component in the index.html by using following code.

<!DOCTYPE html>
  <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
       <head>
        <title>Essential JS 2 Rich Text Editor</title>
        <!-- Essential JS 2 Rich Text Editor's dependent material theme -->
        <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-base/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
        <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-buttons/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
        <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-inputs/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
        <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-lists/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
        <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-popups/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
        <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-splitbuttons/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
        <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-navigations/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
        <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-filemanager/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
        <!-- Essential JS 2 Rich Text Editor material theme -->
        <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-richtexteditor/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

        <!-- Essential JS 2 Rich Text Editor's dependent script -->
        <script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-base/dist/global/ej2-base.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
        <script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-buttons/dist/global/ej2-buttons.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
        <script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-inputs/dist/global/ej2-inputs.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
        <script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-lists/dist/global/ej2-lists.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
        <script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-popups/dist/global/ej2-popups.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
        <script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-splitbuttons/dist/global/ej2-splitbuttons.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
        <script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-navigations/dist/global/ej2-navigations.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
        <script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-filemanager/dist/global/ej2-filemanager.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
        <!-- Essential JS 2 Rich Text Editor's global script -->
        <script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-richtexteditor/dist/global/ej2-richtexteditor.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</head>
       <body>
           <!--Element which will render as RTE-->
     <textarea id="defaultRTE">
     </textarea>
            <script>
                // initialize Rich Text Editor component
               var RichTextEditor = new ej.richtexteditor.RichTextEditor();
                // Render initialized Rich Text Editor.
                RichTextEditor.appendTo('#defaultRTE')
            </script>
       </body>
  </html>

Step 4: Now, run the index.html in web browser, it will render the Essential JS 2 Rich Text Editor component.

Initialize from textarea

Initialize the Rich Text Editor on a textarea.

Now, add an HTML textarea element to act as the Rich Text Editor element in index.html using the following code.

[src/index.html]

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
 <head>
    <title>Essential JS 2 Rich Text Editor</title>
    <!-- Essential JS 2 Rich Text Editor's dependent material theme -->
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-base/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-buttons/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-inputs/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-lists/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-popups/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-splitbuttons/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-navigations/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-filemanager/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
    <!-- Essential JS 2 Rich Text Editor material theme -->
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-richtexteditor/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

    <!-- Essential JS 2 Rich Text Editor's dependent script -->
    <script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-base/dist/global/ej2-base.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
    <script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-buttons/dist/global/ej2-buttons.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
    <script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-inputs/dist/global/ej2-inputs.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
    <script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-lists/dist/global/ej2-lists.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
    <script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-popups/dist/global/ej2-popups.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
    <script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-splitbuttons/dist/global/ej2-splitbuttons.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
    <script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-navigations/dist/global/ej2-navigations.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
    <script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-filemanager/dist/global/ej2-filemanager.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
    <!-- Essential JS 2 Rich Text Editor's global script -->
    <script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-richtexteditor/dist/global/ej2-richtexteditor.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</head>
      <body>
          <!--Element which will render as RTE-->
    <textarea id="defaultRTE"></textarea>
  </body>
</html>

Place the following Rich Text Editor code in the index.js file.

[src/index.js]

// initialize Rich Text Editor component
var defaultRTE = new ej.richtexteditor.RichTextEditor({});

// render initialized Rich Text Editor
defaultRTE.appendTo("#defaultRTE");

Output will be displayed as follows

// initialize Rich Text Editor component
var editor = new ej.richtexteditor.RichTextEditor({});

// render initialized Rich Text Editor
editor.appendTo("#editor");
<!DOCTYPE html><html lang="en"><head>
    <title>Essential JS 2 Rich Text Editor</title>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    <meta name="description" content="Typescript UI Controls">
    <meta name="author" content="Syncfusion">
    <link href="index.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/29.2.4/ej2-base/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/29.2.4/ej2-richtexteditor/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/29.2.4/ej2-inputs/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/29.2.4/ej2-lists/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/29.2.4/ej2-navigations/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/29.2.4/ej2-popups/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
     <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/29.2.4/ej2-buttons/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/29.2.4/ej2-splitbuttons/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    
    
<script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/29.2.4/dist/ej2.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/syncfusion-helper.js" type ="text/javascript"></script>
</head>

<body>
    <div id="container">
        <textarea id="editor"></textarea>
    </div>

<script>
var ele = document.getElementById('container');
if(ele) {
  ele.style.visibility = "visible";
}   
      </script>
<script src="index.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</body></html>

Initialize from <div> element

Rich Text Editor can be initialized on div element as shown below

[src/index.html]

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <title>Essential JS 2 Rich Text Editor</title>
    <!-- Essential JS 2 Rich Text Editor's dependent material theme -->
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-base/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-buttons/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-inputs/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-lists/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-popups/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-splitbuttons/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-navigations/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-filemanager/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
    <!-- Essential JS 2 Rich Text Editor material theme -->
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-richtexteditor/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

    <!-- Essential JS 2 Rich Text Editor's dependent script -->
    <script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-base/dist/global/ej2-base.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
    <script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-buttons/dist/global/ej2-buttons.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
    <script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-inputs/dist/global/ej2-inputs.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
    <script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-lists/dist/global/ej2-lists.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
    <script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-popups/dist/global/ej2-popups.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
    <script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-splitbuttons/dist/global/ej2-splitbuttons.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
    <script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-navigations/dist/global/ej2-navigations.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
    <script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-filemanager/dist/global/ej2-filemanager.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
    <!-- Essential JS 2 Rich Text Editor's global script -->
    <script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-richtexteditor/dist/global/ej2-richtexteditor.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</head>

<body>
    <!--Element which will render as RTE-->
     <div id="defaultRTE"></div>
     <script>
        // initialize Rich Text Editor component
        var RichTextEditor = new ej.richtexteditor.RichTextEditor({
          height: '340px',
          value: `<p>The Syncfudion Rich Text Editor, a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editor, is a user interface that allows you to create, edit, and format rich text content. You can try out a demo of this editor here.</p><p><b>Key features:</b></p><ul><li><p>Provides &lt;IFRAME&gt; and &lt;DIV&gt; modes.</p></li><li><p>Bulleted and numbered lists.</p></li><li><p>Handles images, hyperlinks, videos, hyperlinks, uploads, etc.</p></li><li><p>Contains undo/redo manager. </p></li></ul><div style='display: inline-block; width: 60%; vertical-align: top; cursor: auto;'><img alt='Sky with sun' src='https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/richtexteditor-resources/RTE-Overview.png' width='309' style='min-width: 10px; min-height: 10px; width: 309px; height: 174px;' class='e-rte-image e-imginline e-rte-drag-image' height='174' /></div>`,
        });
        // Render initialized Rich Text Editor.
        RichTextEditor.appendTo('#defaultRTE')
    </script>
</body>
</html>

Initialize from <IFRAME> element

The Rich Text Editor’s content is placed in an iframe and isolated from the rest of the page.

Initialize the Rich Text Editor on div element and set the enable field of iframeSettings property to true.

[src/index.html]

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">

<head>
    <title>Essential JS 2 Rich Text Editor</title>
    <!-- Essential JS 2 Rich Text Editor's dependent material theme -->
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-base/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-buttons/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-inputs/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-lists/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-popups/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-splitbuttons/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-navigations/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-filemanager/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
    <!-- Essential JS 2 Rich Text Editor material theme -->
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-richtexteditor/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

    <!-- Essential JS 2 Rich Text Editor's dependent script -->
    <script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-base/dist/global/ej2-base.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
    <script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-buttons/dist/global/ej2-buttons.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
    <script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-inputs/dist/global/ej2-inputs.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
    <script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-lists/dist/global/ej2-lists.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
    <script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-popups/dist/global/ej2-popups.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
    <script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-splitbuttons/dist/global/ej2-splitbuttons.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
    <script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-navigations/dist/global/ej2-navigations.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
    <script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-filemanager/dist/global/ej2-filemanager.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
    <!-- Essential JS 2 Rich Text Editor's global script -->
    <script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/ej2-richtexteditor/dist/global/ej2-richtexteditor.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</head>

<body>
    <!--Element which will render as RTE-->
     <div id="defaultRTE"></div>
     <script>
        // initialize Rich Text Editor component
        var RichTextEditor = new ej.richtexteditor.RichTextEditor({
          height: '340px',
          iframeSettings: {
                enable: true
            },
          value: `<p>The Syncfudion Rich Text Editor, a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editor, is a user interface that allows you to create, edit, and format rich text content. You can try out a demo of this editor here.</p><p><b>Key features:</b></p><ul><li><p>Provides &lt;IFRAME&gt; and &lt;DIV&gt; modes.</p></li><li><p>Bulleted and numbered lists.</p></li><li><p>Handles images, hyperlinks, videos, hyperlinks, uploads, etc.</p></li><li><p>Contains undo/redo manager. </p></li></ul><div style='display: inline-block; width: 60%; vertical-align: top; cursor: auto;'><img alt='Sky with sun' src='https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/richtexteditor-resources/RTE-Overview.png' width='309' style='min-width: 10px; min-height: 10px; width: 309px; height: 174px;' class='e-rte-image e-imginline e-rte-drag-image' height='174' /></div>`,
        });
        // Render initialized Rich Text Editor.
        RichTextEditor.appendTo('#defaultRTE')
    </script>
</body>
</html>

Configure the toolbar

Configure the toolbar with the tools using items field of the toolbarSettings property as your application requires.

// initialize Rich Text Editor component
var editor = new ej.richtexteditor.RichTextEditor({toolbarSettings: {
        items: ['Bold', 'Italic', 'Underline', 'StrikeThrough',
                'FontName', 'FontSize', 'FontColor', 'BackgroundColor',
                'LowerCase', 'UpperCase', '|',
                'Formats', 'Alignments', 'OrderedList', 'UnorderedList',
                'Outdent', 'Indent', '|',
                'CreateLink', 'Image', '|', 'ClearFormat', 'Print',
                'SourceCode', 'FullScreen', '|', 'Undo', 'Redo']
        },
        value: `<p>The Syncfusion Rich Text Editor, a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editor, is a user interface that allows you to create, edit, and format rich text content. You can try out a demo of this editor here.</p><p><b>Key features:</b></p><ul><li><p>Provides &lt;IFRAME&gt; and &lt;DIV&gt; modes.</p></li><li><p>Bulleted and numbered lists.</p></li><li><p>Handles images, hyperlinks, videos, hyperlinks, uploads, etc.</p></li><li><p>Contains undo/redo manager. </p></li></ul><div style='display: inline-block; width: 60%; vertical-align: top; cursor: auto;'><img alt='Sky with sun' src='https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/richtexteditor-resources/RTE-Overview.png' width='309' style='min-width: 10px; min-height: 10px; width: 309px; height: 174px;' class='e-rte-image e-imginline e-rte-drag-image' height='174' /></div>`,
});

// render initialized Rich Text Editor
editor.appendTo('#editor');
<!DOCTYPE html><html lang="en"><head>
    <title>Essential JS 2 Rich Text Editor</title>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    <meta name="description" content="Typescript UI Controls">
    <meta name="author" content="Syncfusion">
    <link href="index.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/29.2.4/ej2-base/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/29.2.4/ej2-richtexteditor/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/29.2.4/ej2-inputs/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/29.2.4/ej2-lists/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/29.2.4/ej2-navigations/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/29.2.4/ej2-popups/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
     <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/29.2.4/ej2-buttons/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/29.2.4/ej2-splitbuttons/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    
    
<script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/29.2.4/dist/ej2.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/syncfusion-helper.js" type ="text/javascript"></script>
</head>

<body>
    <div id="container">
        <div id="editor"></div>
    </div>

<script>
var ele = document.getElementById('container');
if(ele) {
  ele.style.visibility = "visible";
}   
      </script>
<script src="index.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</body></html>

| and - can insert a vertical and horizontal separator lines in the toolbar.

The image module inserts an image into Rich Text Editor’s content area, and the link module links external resources such as website URLs, to selected text in the Rich Text Editor’s content, respectively.

The link inject module adds a link icon to the toolbar and the image inject module adds an image icon to the toolbar.

Specifies the items to be rendered in the quick toolbar based on the target element such image, link and text element. The quick toolbar opens to customize the element by clicking the target element.

// initialize Rich Text Editor component
var editor = new ej.richtexteditor.RichTextEditor({
    //Define the quicktoolbar items for image
    quickToolbarSettings: {
        image: [
        'Replace', 'Align', 'Caption', 'Remove', 'InsertLink', 'OpenImageLink', '-',
        'EditImageLink', 'RemoveImageLink', 'Display', 'AltText', 'Dimension'
        ]
    },
    //Define toolbar items
    toolbarSettings: {
        items: ['Bold', 'Italic', 'Underline', 'StrikeThrough',
        'FontName', 'FontSize', 'FontColor', 'BackgroundColor',
        'LowerCase', 'UpperCase', '|',
        'Formats', 'Alignments', 'OrderedList', 'UnorderedList',
        'Outdent', 'Indent', '|',
        'CreateLink', 'Image', '|', 'ClearFormat', 'Print',
        'SourceCode', 'FullScreen', '|', 'Undo', 'Redo']
    },
    value: `<p>The Syncfusion Rich Text Editor, a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editor, is a user interface that allows you to create, edit, and format rich text content. You can try out a demo of this editor here.</p><p><b>Key features:</b></p><ul><li><p>Provides &lt;IFRAME&gt; and &lt;DIV&gt; modes.</p></li><li><p>Bulleted and numbered lists.</p></li><li><p>Handles images, hyperlinks, videos, hyperlinks, uploads, etc.</p></li><li><p>Contains undo/redo manager. </p></li></ul><div style='display: inline-block; width: 60%; vertical-align: top; cursor: auto;'><img alt='Sky with sun' src='https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/richtexteditor-resources/RTE-Overview.png' width='309' style='min-width: 10px; min-height: 10px; width: 309px; height: 174px;' class='e-rte-image e-imginline e-rte-drag-image' height='174' /></div>`,
});
// render initialized Rich Text Editor
editor.appendTo('#editor');
<!DOCTYPE html><html lang="en"><head>
    <title>Essential JS 2 Rich Text Editor</title>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    <meta name="description" content="Typescript UI Controls">
    <meta name="author" content="Syncfusion">
    <link href="index.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/29.2.4/ej2-base/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/29.2.4/ej2-richtexteditor/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/29.2.4/ej2-inputs/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/29.2.4/ej2-lists/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/29.2.4/ej2-navigations/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/29.2.4/ej2-popups/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
     <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/29.2.4/ej2-buttons/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/29.2.4/ej2-splitbuttons/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    
    
<script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/29.2.4/dist/ej2.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/syncfusion-helper.js" type ="text/javascript"></script>
</head>

<body>
    
    <div id="container">
        <div id="editor"></div>
    </div>

<script>
var ele = document.getElementById('container');
if(ele) {
  ele.style.visibility = "visible";
}   
      </script>
<script src="index.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</body></html>

Retrieve the formatted content

To retrieve the editor contents, use value property of Rich Text Editor.

  var rteValue = defaultRTE.value;

Or, you can use the public method, getHtml to retrieve the Rich Text Editor content.

  var rteValue = defaultRTE.getHtml();

To fetch the Rich Text Editor’s text content, use getText method of Rich Text Editor.

  var rteValue = defaultRTE.getText();

You can refer to our JavaScript Rich Text Editor feature tour page for its groundbreaking feature representations. You can also explore our JavaScript Rich Text Editor example that shows how to render the rich text editor tools.

See also