Customize placeholder style in React Rich text editor component

20 Jan 20233 minutes to read

By using e-rte-placeholder class, you can customize the placeholder style.

[Class-component]

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

class App extends React.Component {
    placeholder = "Type something";
    render() {
        return (<RichTextEditorComponent placeholder={this.placeholder}>
        <Inject services={[Toolbar, Image, Link, HtmlEditor, QuickToolbar]}/>
      </RichTextEditorComponent>);
    }
}
export default App;
import { HtmlEditor, Image, Inject, Link, QuickToolbar, RichTextEditorComponent, Toolbar } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-richtexteditor';
import * as React from 'react';

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

  public render() {
    return (
      <RichTextEditorComponent placeholder={this.placeholder}>
        <Inject services={[Toolbar, Image, Link, HtmlEditor, QuickToolbar]} />
      </RichTextEditorComponent>
    );
  }
}

export default App;

[Functional-component]

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

function App() {
    let placeholder = "Type something";
    return (<RichTextEditorComponent placeholder={placeholder}>
      <Inject services={[Toolbar, Image, Link, HtmlEditor, QuickToolbar]}/>
    </RichTextEditorComponent>);
}
export default App;
import { HtmlEditor, Image, Inject, Link, QuickToolbar, RichTextEditorComponent, Toolbar } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-richtexteditor';
import * as React from 'react';

function App() {
  let placeholder: string = "Type something";
  return (
    <RichTextEditorComponent placeholder={placeholder}>
      <Inject services={[Toolbar, Image, Link, HtmlEditor, QuickToolbar]} />
    </RichTextEditorComponent>
  );
}

export default App;