Getting Started

19 Jan 202416 minutes to read

This section explains the steps to create a Word document editor within your application and demonstrates the basic usage of the DocumentEditor component.

To get started quickly with DocumentEditor component, you can check the video below.

Dependencies

Following is the list of minimum dependencies required to use the documenteditor.

|-- @syncfusion/ej2-react-documenteditor
    |-- @syncfusion/ej2-react-base
    |-- @syncfusion/ej2-base
    |-- @syncfusion/ej2-build
    |-- @syncfusion/ej2-buttons
    |-- @syncfusion/ej2-compression
    |-- @syncfusion/ej2-data
    |-- @syncfusion/ej2-dropdowns
    |-- @syncfusion/ej2-file-utils
    |-- @syncfusion/ej2-inputs
    |-- @syncfusion/ej2-lists
    |-- @syncfusion/ej2-navigations
    |-- @syncfusion/ej2-popups
    |-- @syncfusion/ej2-splitbuttons
    |-- @syncfusion/ej2-documenteditor
    |-- @syncfusion/ej2-charts

Server side dependencies

The Document Editor component requires server-side interactions for the following operations:

Note: If you don’t require the above functionalities then you can deploy as pure client-side component without any server-side interactions.

To know about server-side dependencies, please refer this page.

Setup for Local Development

You can use create-react-app to setup the applications.
To install create-react-app run the following command.

npm install -g create-react-app

To setup basic React sample use following commands.

``` create-react-app quickstart --scripts-version=react-scripts-ts cd quickstart npm install ```

``` create-react-app quickstart cd quickstart npm install ```

Note: Creating react app without mentioning typescript, will create src/app.js instead of src/app.tsx file. You can also add the below code snippet in src/app.js file.

To create react app using typescript, you can use this create-react-app quickstart –template typescript command. This will create app.tsx file under src folder of project location.

Adding Syncfusion packages

All the available Essential JS 2 packages are published in npmjs.com public registry.
You can choose the component that you want to install.

To install Document Editor component, use the following command

npm install @syncfusion/ej2-react-documenteditor --save

Adding CSS reference

Add Document Editor component and its dependent component styles as given below in src/App.css.

@import '../node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-base/styles/material.css';
@import '../node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-buttons/styles/material.css';
@import '../node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-inputs/styles/material.css';
@import '../node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-popups/styles/material.css';
@import '../node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-lists/styles/material.css';
@import '../node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-navigations/styles/material.css';
@import '../node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-splitbuttons/styles/material.css';
@import '../node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-dropdowns/styles/material.css';
@import "../node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-documenteditor/styles/material.css";

To know about individual component CSS, please refer to
Individual Component theme files section.

Adding Component

You can add DocumentEditorContainer Component with predefined toolbar and properties pane options or DocumentEditor component with customize options.

Note: Starting from v19.3.0.x, we have optimized the accuracy of text size measurements such as to match Microsoft Word pagination for most Word documents. This improvement is included as default behavior along with an optional API to disable it and retain the document pagination behavior of older versions.

DocumentEditor component

DocumentEditor Component is used to create , view and edit word documents. In this , you can customize the UI options based on your requirements to modify the document.

Adding DocumentEditor component

Now, you can start adding DocumentEditor component in the application. For getting started, add the DocumentEditor component in src/App.tsx file using following code.

Add the below code in the src/App.tsx to initialize the DocumentEditor.

import * as React from 'react';
import { DocumentEditorComponent, Print, SfdtExport, WordExport, TextExport, Selection, Search, Editor, ImageResizer, EditorHistory, ContextMenu, OptionsPane, HyperlinkDialog, TableDialog, BookmarkDialog, TableOfContentsDialog, PageSetupDialog, StyleDialog, ListDialog, ParagraphDialog, BulletsAndNumberingDialog, FontDialog, TablePropertiesDialog, BordersAndShadingDialog, TableOptionsDialog, CellOptionsDialog, StylesDialog } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-documenteditor';
DocumentEditorComponent.Inject(Print, SfdtExport, WordExport, TextExport, Selection, Search, Editor, ImageResizer, EditorHistory, ContextMenu, OptionsPane, HyperlinkDialog, TableDialog, BookmarkDialog, TableOfContentsDialog, PageSetupDialog, StyleDialog, ListDialog, ParagraphDialog, BulletsAndNumberingDialog, FontDialog, TablePropertiesDialog, BordersAndShadingDialog, TableOptionsDialog, CellOptionsDialog, StylesDialog);
function App() {
    return (<DocumentEditorComponent id="container" height={'330px'} serviceUrl="https://ej2services.syncfusion.com/production/web-services/api/documenteditor/" isReadOnly={false} enablePrint={true} enableSelection={true} enableEditor={true} enableEditorHistory={true} enableContextMenu={true} enableSearch={true} enableOptionsPane={true} enableBookmarkDialog={true} enableBordersAndShadingDialog={true} enableFontDialog={true} enableTableDialog={true} enableParagraphDialog={true} enableHyperlinkDialog={true} enableImageResizer={true} enableListDialog={true} enablePageSetupDialog={true} enableSfdtExport={true} enableStyleDialog={true} enableTableOfContentsDialog={true} enableTableOptionsDialog={true} enableTablePropertiesDialog={true} enableTextExport={true} enableWordExport={true} />);
}
export default App

Run the DocumentEditor application

The create-react-app will pre-configure the project to compile and run the application in browser. Use the following command to run the application.

npm start

Document Editor output will be displayed as follows.

index.jsx
index.tsx
index.html
import * as ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import * as React from 'react';
import { DocumentEditorComponent, Print, SfdtExport, WordExport, TextExport, Selection, Search, Editor, ImageResizer, EditorHistory, ContextMenu, OptionsPane, HyperlinkDialog, TableDialog, BookmarkDialog, TableOfContentsDialog, PageSetupDialog, StyleDialog, ListDialog, ParagraphDialog, BulletsAndNumberingDialog, FontDialog, TablePropertiesDialog, BordersAndShadingDialog, TableOptionsDialog, CellOptionsDialog, StylesDialog } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-documenteditor';
DocumentEditorComponent.Inject(Print, SfdtExport, WordExport, TextExport, Selection, Search, Editor, ImageResizer, EditorHistory, ContextMenu, OptionsPane, HyperlinkDialog, TableDialog, BookmarkDialog, TableOfContentsDialog, PageSetupDialog, StyleDialog, ListDialog, ParagraphDialog, BulletsAndNumberingDialog, FontDialog, TablePropertiesDialog, BordersAndShadingDialog, TableOptionsDialog, CellOptionsDialog, StylesDialog);
function Default() {
    return (<DocumentEditorComponent id="container" height={'330px'} serviceUrl="https://ej2services.syncfusion.com/production/web-services/api/documenteditor/" isReadOnly={false} enablePrint={true} enableSelection={true} enableEditor={true} enableEditorHistory={true} enableContextMenu={true} enableSearch={true} enableOptionsPane={true} enableBookmarkDialog={true} enableBordersAndShadingDialog={true} enableFontDialog={true} enableTableDialog={true} enableParagraphDialog={true} enableHyperlinkDialog={true} enableImageResizer={true} enableListDialog={true} enablePageSetupDialog={true} enableSfdtExport={true} enableStyleDialog={true} enableTableOfContentsDialog={true} enableTableOptionsDialog={true} enableTablePropertiesDialog={true} enableTextExport={true} enableWordExport={true}/>);
}
export default Default;
ReactDOM.render(<Default />, document.getElementById('sample'));
import * as ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import * as React from 'react';

import {
    DocumentEditorComponent, DocumentEditor, RequestNavigateEventArgs, ViewChangeEventArgs,
    Print, SfdtExport, WordExport, TextExport, Selection, Search, Editor, ImageResizer, EditorHistory,
    ContextMenu, OptionsPane, HyperlinkDialog, TableDialog, BookmarkDialog, TableOfContentsDialog,
    PageSetupDialog, StyleDialog, ListDialog, ParagraphDialog, BulletsAndNumberingDialog, FontDialog,
    TablePropertiesDialog, BordersAndShadingDialog, TableOptionsDialog, CellOptionsDialog, StylesDialog
} from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-documenteditor';


DocumentEditorComponent.Inject(Print, SfdtExport, WordExport, TextExport, Selection, Search, Editor, ImageResizer, EditorHistory, ContextMenu, OptionsPane, HyperlinkDialog, TableDialog, BookmarkDialog, TableOfContentsDialog, PageSetupDialog, StyleDialog, ListDialog, ParagraphDialog, BulletsAndNumberingDialog, FontDialog, TablePropertiesDialog, BordersAndShadingDialog, TableOptionsDialog, CellOptionsDialog, StylesDialog);
function Default() {
    return (
        <DocumentEditorComponent id="container" height={'330px'} serviceUrl="https://ej2services.syncfusion.com/production/web-services/api/documenteditor/" isReadOnly={false} enablePrint={true}
            enableSelection={true} enableEditor={true} enableEditorHistory={true}
            enableContextMenu={true} enableSearch={true} enableOptionsPane={true}
            enableBookmarkDialog={true} enableBordersAndShadingDialog={true} enableFontDialog={true} enableTableDialog={true} enableParagraphDialog={true} enableHyperlinkDialog={true} enableImageResizer={true} enableListDialog={true}
            enablePageSetupDialog={true} enableSfdtExport={true}
            enableStyleDialog={true} enableTableOfContentsDialog={true}
            enableTableOptionsDialog={true} enableTablePropertiesDialog={true}
            enableTextExport={true} enableWordExport={true} />
    );
}
export default Default
ReactDOM.render(<Default />, document.getElementById('sample'));
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">

<head>
    <title>Syncfusion React Button</title>
    <meta charset="utf-8" />
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
    <meta name="description" content="Essential JS 2 for React Components" />
    <meta name="author" content="Syncfusion" />
    <link href="index.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/25.1.35/ej2-react-documenteditor/styles/fabric.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/25.1.35/ej2-documenteditor/styles/fabric.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/25.1.35/ej2-buttons/styles/fabric.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/25.1.35/ej2-base/styles/fabric.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/25.1.35/ej2-dropdowns/styles/fabric.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/25.1.35/ej2-inputs/styles/fabric.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/25.1.35/ej2-splitbuttons/styles/fabric.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/25.1.35/ej2-lists/styles/fabric.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/25.1.35/ej2-navigations/styles/fabric.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/25.1.35/ej2-popups/styles/fabric.css" rel="stylesheet" />   
    <link href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/systemjs/0.19.38/system.js"></script>
    <script src="systemjs.config.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/syncfusion-helper.js" type ="text/javascript"></script>
</head>

<body>
        <div id='sample'>
            <div id='loader'>Loading....</div>
        </div>
</body>

</html>

DocumentEditorContainer component

DocumentEditorContainer Component is also used to create, view and edit word document. But here, you can use predefined toolbar and properties pane to view and modify word document.

Adding DocumentEditorContainer component

Now, you can start adding DocumentEditorContainer component in the application. For getting started, add the DocumentEditorContainer component in src/App.tsx file using following code.