Customize tool bar in Vue Document editor component

16 Jul 20244 minutes to read

How to customize existing toolbar in DocumentEditorContainer

Document Editor Container allows you to customize(add, show, hide, enable, and disable) existing items in a toolbar.

• Add - New items can defined by CustomToolbarItemModel and with existing items in toolbarItems property. Newly added item click action can be defined in toolbarclick.
• Show, Hide - Existing items can be shown or hidden using the toolbarItems property. Pre-defined toolbar items are available with ToolbarItem.
• Enable, Disable - Toolbar items can be enabled or disable using enableItems

Composition API (~/src/App.vue)

<template>
  <div id="app">
    <ejs-documenteditorcontainer ref="container" :toolbarItems='items' v-bind:toolbarClick='onToolbarClick'
      :enableToolbar='true'> </ejs-documenteditorcontainer>
  </div>
</template>

<script setup>
import { DocumentEditorContainerComponent as EjsDocumenteditorcontainer, Toolbar } from '@syncfusion/ej2-vue-documenteditor';
import { provide, ref } from 'vue';

const container = ref(null);
const items = [
  {
    prefixIcon: "e-de-ctnr-lock",
    tooltipText: "Disable Image",
    text: "Disable Image",
    id: "Custom"
  },
  'Undo', 'Redo', 'Separator', 'Image', 'Table', 'Hyperlink', 'Bookmark', 'TableOfContents', 'Separator', 'Header', 'Footer', 'PageSetup', 'PageNumber', 'Break', 'InsertFootnote', 'InsertEndnote', 'Separator', 'Find', 'Separator', 'Comments', 'TrackChanges', 'Separator', 'LocalClipboard', 'RestrictEditing', 'Separator', 'FormFields', 'UpdateFields','ContentControl']

provide('DocumentEditorContainer', [Toolbar]);

const onToolbarClick = function (args) {
  switch (args.item.id) {
    case 'Custom':
      //Disable image toolbar item.
      container.value.ej2Instances.toolbar.enableItems(4, false);
      break;
  }
}
</script>

Options API (~/src/App.vue)

<template>
  <div id="app">
    <ejs-documenteditorcontainer ref="container" :toolbarItems='items' v-bind:toolbarClick='onToolbarClick'
      :enableToolbar='true'> </ejs-documenteditorcontainer>
  </div>
</template>

<script>
import { DocumentEditorContainerComponent, Toolbar } from '@syncfusion/ej2-vue-documenteditor';

export default {
  components: {
    'ejs-documenteditorcontainer': DocumentEditorContainerComponent
  },
  data() {
    return {
      items: [
        {
          prefixIcon: "e-de-ctnr-lock",
          tooltipText: "Disable Image",
          text: "Disable Image",
          id: "Custom"
        },
        'Undo', 'Redo', 'Separator', 'Image', 'Table', 'Hyperlink', 'Bookmark', 'TableOfContents', 'Separator', 'Header', 'Footer', 'PageSetup', 'PageNumber', 'Break', 'InsertFootnote', 'InsertEndnote', 'Separator', 'Find', 'Separator', 'Comments', 'TrackChanges', 'Separator', 'LocalClipboard', 'RestrictEditing', 'Separator', 'FormFields', 'UpdateFields','ContentControl']
    }
  },
  provide: {
    DocumentEditorContainer: [Toolbar]
  },
  methods: {
    onToolbarClick: function (args) {
      switch (args.item.id) {
        case 'Custom':
          //Disable image toolbar item.
          this.$refs.container.ej2Instances.toolbar.enableItems(4, false);
          break;
      }
    }
  }
}
</script>

Note: Default value of toolbarItems is ['New', 'Open', 'Separator', 'Undo', 'Redo', 'Separator', 'Image', 'Table', 'Hyperlink', 'Bookmark', 'TableOfContents', 'Separator', 'Header', 'Footer', 'PageSetup', 'PageNumber', 'Break', 'InsertFootnote', 'InsertEndnote', 'Separator', 'Find', 'Separator', 'Comments', 'TrackChanges', 'Separator', 'LocalClipboard', 'RestrictEditing', 'Separator', 'FormFields', 'UpdateFields','ContentControl'].