Configure the Rich Text Editor configure-the-rich-text-editor

The Rich Text Editor (RTE) provides authors with a wide range of functionality to edit text content. Icons, selection boxes, toolbar, and menus are provided for a WYSIWYG text-editing experience. Administrators configure the RTE to enable, disable, and extend the features available in the authoring components. See how authors use RTE for authoring web content.

The RTE concepts and steps required to configure it are listed below.

Understand the user interface available to authors understand-rte-ui

The RTE interface offers a responsive design for authoring environment. The interface is designed for use on touch and desktop devices.

Figure: Rich Text Editor toolbar with all the available options enabled.

The toolbar provides the options for the WYSIWYG authoring experience. Experience Manager administrators can configure the options available in the toolbar on the interface. A comprehensive set of editing options are available by default in Experience Manager. Developers can customize Experience Manager to add more editing options.

Various modes of editing editingmodes

Authors can create and edit textual content in Experience Manager using the different modes of components. The toolbar options for authoring and formatting content and the user experience of RTE-enabled components in different editing mode varies based on RTE configurations.

Inline editing inline-editing

To edit the content within a page, open the content with a slow double-click . A compact toolbar with basic options is presented.

Figure: Inline editing with basic options in the toolbar.

Full-screen editing full-screen-editing

Experience Manager components can be opened in full-screen view that hides the page content and occupies the available screen. Consider full-screen editing a detailed version of the inline editing as it offers the most editing options. It can be opened by clicking , from the compact toolbar when using the inline editing mode.

In the dialog full-screen mode, along with a detailed RTE toolbar, the options and components available in a dialog are also available. It is applicable only for a dialog that contains RTE alongside other components.

Figure: The detailed RTE toolbar when editing in full-screen mode.

Dialog editing dialog-editing

When a component is double-clicked a dialog box opens for editing the contents. The dialog box opens on top of the existing page. In some specific scenarios, the dialog opens as a pop-up window. For example, when a Text component is part of a column in a multicolumn page layout and the area available for the dialog is less.

Figure: Dialog editing mode.

About RTE plug-ins and the associated features aboutplugins

The functionality is made available via a series of plug-ins, each with:

Basic features of the RTE are activated, or deactivated, by the value of the features property on a node specific to the appropriate plug-in.

The following table lists the current plug-ins, showing:

Understand the configuration paths and locations understand-the-configuration-paths-and-locations

The mode of RTE editing and the interface that you provide for your authors decide the location for the configuration details when you are activating the RTE plug-ins. The locations are:

Configure the following properties that apply in Dialog editing mode:

When RTE is used in the touch-enabled dialog, set the property useFixedInlineToolbar to true to avoid issues.

Enable RTE functionalities by activating plug-ins enable-rte-functionalities-by-activating-plug-ins

RTE functionalities are made available via a series of plug-ins, each with features property. You can configure the features property to enable or disable the various features of each plug-in.

For detailed configurations of the RTE plug-ins, see how to activate and configure the RTE plug-ins.

The Core Components text component lets template editors to configure many RTE plug-ins using the user interface as content policies, eliminating the need for technical configuration. Content policies can work with RTE UI configurations as described in this document. For more information, see create page templates and the Core Components developer documentation.

For reference purposes, the default Text components (delivered as part of a standard installation) can be found at:

• /libs/wcm/foundation/components/text
• /libs/foundation/components/text

To create your own text component, copy the above component instead of editing these components.

Configure RTE toolbar dialogfullscreen

Experience Manager lets you configure the interface for the Rich Text Editor differently for the different editing modes. The default settings are provided below. You can override these defaults based on your requirements. You customize only the toolbar features that you want to provide to your authors. You need not specify all the toolbar configurations.

To configure the toolbar for dialogFullScreen, use the following sample configuration.

<uiSettings jcr:primaryType="nt:unstructured">
  <cui jcr:primaryType="nt:unstructured">
    <inline
      jcr:primaryType="nt:unstructured"
      toolbar="[format#bold,format#italic,format#underline,#justify,#lists,links#modifylink,links#unlink,#paraformat]">
      <popovers jcr:primaryType="nt:unstructured">
        <justify
          jcr:primaryType="nt:unstructured"
          items="[justify#justifyleft,justify#justifycenter,justify#justifyright,justify#justifyjustify]"
          ref="justify"/>
        <lists
          jcr:primaryType="nt:unstructured"
          items="[lists#unordered,lists#ordered,lists#outdent,lists#indent]"
          ref="lists"/>
        <paraformat
          jcr:primaryType="nt:unstructured"
          items="paraformat:getFormats:paraformat-pulldown"
          ref="paraformat"/>
      </popovers>
    </inline>
    <dialogFullScreen
      jcr:primaryType="nt:unstructured"
      toolbar="[format#bold,format#italic,format#underline,justify#justifyleft,justify#justifycenter,justify#justifyright,justify#justifyjustify,lists#unordered,lists#ordered,lists#outdent,lists#indent,links#modifylink,links#unlink,table#createoredit,#paraformat,image#imageProps]">
      <popovers jcr:primaryType="nt:unstructured">
        <paraformat
          jcr:primaryType="nt:unstructured"
          items="paraformat:getFormats:paraformat-pulldown"
          ref="paraformat"/>
      </popovers>
    </dialogFullScreen>
    <tableEditOptions
      jcr:primaryType="nt:unstructured"
      toolbar="[table#insertcolumn-before,table#insertcolumn-after,table#removecolumn,-,table#insertrow-before,table#insertrow-after,table#removerow,-,table#mergecells-right,table#mergecells-down,table#mergecells,table#splitcell-horizontal,table#splitcell-vertical,-,table#selectrow,table#selectcolumn,-,table#ensureparagraph,-,table#modifytableandcell,table#removetable,-,undo#undo,undo#redo,-,table#exitTableEditing,-]">
    </tableEditOptions>
  </cui>
</uiSettings>

Different user interface settings are used for the inline mode and full-screen mode. The toolbar property specifies the option of the toolbar.

For example, if the option is itself a feature (for example, Bold), it is specified as PluginName#FeatureName (for example, links#modifylink).

If the option is a pop over (containing some features of a plug-in), it is specified as #PluginName (for example, #format).

Separators (|) between a group of option can be specified with -.

The pop-up node under inline or full-screen mode contains a list of the pop overs being used. Each child node under the popovers node is named after the plug-in (for example, format). It has a property ‘items’ containing a list of features of the plug-in (for example, format#bold).

RTE user interface settings and content policies rtecontentpolicies

Administrators can control the RTE options using content policies, say instead of doing the configuration as described above. Content policies define the design properties of a component when used as part of an editable template. For example, if a text component that uses the RTE is used with an editable template, the content policy can define that the bold option be available and a few paragraph formatting options be available. Content policies are reusable and can be applied across multiple templates.

The available options in the RTE flow downstream from the user interface configurations to the content policies.

As an example, you can see the Text Core Component documentation.

Customize mapping between toolbar icons and commands iconstoolbar

You can customize the mapping between Coral icons displayed on the RTE toolbar and the available commands. You cannot use any other icons besides Coral icons.

Below is a sample snippet to map the command Bold to the Coral icon named textItalic.

<text jcr:primaryType="nt:unstructured" sling:resourceType="cq/gui/components/authoring/dialog/richtext" name="./text" useFixedInlineToolbar="{Boolean}true">
    <rtePlugins jcr:primaryType="nt:unstructured">
        <format jcr:primaryType="nt:unstructured" features="bold,italic"/>
    </rtePlugins>
    <uiSettings jcr:primaryType="nt:unstructured">
        <cui jcr:primaryType="nt:unstructured">
            <inline jcr:primaryType="nt:unstructured"
                toolbar="[format#bold,format#italic,format#underline,links#modifylink,links#unlink]">
            </inline>
            <icons jcr:primaryType="nt:unstructured">
                <bold jcr:primaryType="nt:unstructured"
                    command="format#bold"
                    icon="textItalic"/>
            </icons>
        </cui>
    </uiSettings>
</text>

Known limitations known-limitations

Experience Manager RTE capability has the following limitations:

Best practices and tips best-practices-and-tips