Change default font family in React Rich text editor component

20 Jan 202314 minutes to read

By using default property, you can change the default font-family of the RTE. To change the font-family of the RTE content while loading, we need to give the font-family in the style section with the help of cssClass property.

[Class-component]

app.jsx
app.tsx
import { Count, HtmlEditor, Image, Inject, Link, QuickToolbar, RichTextEditorComponent, Toolbar } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-richtexteditor';
import * as React from 'react';

class App extends React.Component {

    rteValue = "<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>";

    fontFamily = {
        default: "Noto Sans",
        items: [
            { text: "Segoe UI", value: "Segoe UI", class: "e-segoe-ui", command: "Font", subCommand: "FontName" },
            { text: "Roboto", value: "Roboto", command: "Font", subCommand: "FontName" },
            { text: "Great vibes", value: "Great Vibes,cursive", command: "Font", subCommand: "FontName" },
            { text: "Noto Sans", value: "Noto Sans", command: "Font", subCommand: "FontName" },
            { text: "Impact", value: "Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif", class: "e-impact", command: "Font", subCommand: "FontName" },
            { text: "Tahoma", value: "Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif", class: "e-tahoma", command: "Font", subCommand: "FontName" },
        ]
    };
    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']
    };
    cssClass = "customClass";
    render() {
        return (<RichTextEditorComponent value={this.rteValue} toolbarSettings={this.toolbarSettings} fontFamily={this.fontFamily} cssClass={this.cssClass}>
        <Inject services={[Toolbar, Count, Image, Link, HtmlEditor, QuickToolbar]}/>
      </RichTextEditorComponent>);
    }
}
export default App;
import { Count, HtmlEditor, Image, Inject, Link, QuickToolbar, RichTextEditorComponent, Toolbar } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-richtexteditor';
import * as React from 'react';

class App extends React.Component<{},{}> {
  private rteValue: string = "<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>";

  private fontFamily: object = {
    default:"Noto Sans", // to define default font-family
    items:[
      {text: "Segoe UI", value: "Segoe UI", class: "e-segoe-ui",  command: "Font", subCommand: "FontName"},
      {text: "Roboto", value: "Roboto",  command: "Font", subCommand: "FontName"},
      {text: "Great vibes", value: "Great Vibes,cursive",  command: "Font", subCommand: "FontName"},
      {text: "Noto Sans", value: "Noto Sans",  command: "Font", subCommand: "FontName"},
      {text: "Impact", value: "Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif", class: "e-impact", command: "Font", subCommand: "FontName"},
      {text: "Tahoma", value: "Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif", class: "e-tahoma", command: "Font", subCommand: "FontName"},
    ]
  };
  private toolbarSettings: object = {
    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']
  };
  
  private cssClass: string = "customClass";

  public render() {
    return (
      <RichTextEditorComponent value={this.rteValue}  toolbarSettings={this.toolbarSettings} fontFamily={this.fontFamily} cssClass={this.cssClass}>
        <Inject services={[Toolbar, Count, Image, Link, HtmlEditor, QuickToolbar]} />
      </RichTextEditorComponent>
    );
  }
}

export default App;

[Functional-component]

app.jsx
app.tsx
import { Count, HtmlEditor, Image, Inject, Link, QuickToolbar, RichTextEditorComponent, Toolbar } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-richtexteditor';
import * as React from 'react';
function App() {
    let rteValue = "<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>";

    const fontFamily = {
        default: "Noto Sans",
        items: [
            { text: "Segoe UI", value: "Segoe UI", class: "e-segoe-ui", command: "Font", subCommand: "FontName" },
            { text: "Roboto", value: "Roboto", command: "Font", subCommand: "FontName" },
            { text: "Great vibes", value: "Great Vibes,cursive", command: "Font", subCommand: "FontName" },
            { text: "Noto Sans", value: "Noto Sans", command: "Font", subCommand: "FontName" },
            { text: "Impact", value: "Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif", class: "e-impact", command: "Font", subCommand: "FontName" },
            { text: "Tahoma", value: "Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif", class: "e-tahoma", command: "Font", subCommand: "FontName" },
        ]
    };
    const 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']
    };
    let cssClass = "customClass";
    return (<RichTextEditorComponent value={rteValue}  toolbarSettings={toolbarSettings} fontFamily={fontFamily} cssClass={cssClass}>
      <Inject services={[Toolbar, Count, Image, Link, HtmlEditor, QuickToolbar]}/>
    </RichTextEditorComponent>);
}
export default App;
import { Count, HtmlEditor, Image, Inject, Link, QuickToolbar, RichTextEditorComponent, Toolbar } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-richtexteditor';
import * as React from 'react';

function App() {

  let rteValue: string = "<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>";

  const fontFamily: object = {
    default:"Noto Sans", // to define default font-family
    items:[
      {text: "Segoe UI", value: "Segoe UI", class: "e-segoe-ui",  command: "Font", subCommand: "FontName"},
      {text: "Roboto", value: "Roboto",  command: "Font", subCommand: "FontName"},
      {text: "Great vibes", value: "Great Vibes,cursive",  command: "Font", subCommand: "FontName"},
      {text: "Noto Sans", value: "Noto Sans",  command: "Font", subCommand: "FontName"},
      {text: "Impact", value: "Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif", class: "e-impact", command: "Font", subCommand: "FontName"},
      {text: "Tahoma", value: "Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif", class: "e-tahoma", command: "Font", subCommand: "FontName"},
    ]
  };

  const toolbarSettings: object = {
    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']
  };
  
  let cssClass: string = "customClass";
  return (
    <RichTextEditorComponent value={rteValue}  toolbarSettings={toolbarSettings} fontFamily={fontFamily} cssClass={cssClass}>
      <Inject services={[Toolbar, Count, Image, Link, HtmlEditor, QuickToolbar]} />
    </RichTextEditorComponent>
  );
}

export default App;