Angular WYSIWYG Text Editor

Rich text editor What You See Is What You Get created using Angular 17.

Easy to use and customize.

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📝 DEMO - Try it out! 📝

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Getting Started

Installation

1. Install the package:

   Using npm:

   npm install @wfpena/angular-wysiwyg

   Using yarn:

   yarn add @wfpena/angular-wysiwyg

2. (For version >=1.1.5) Import the fonts:

   Add to your global scss:

   @import '@wfpena/angular-wysiwyg/'

Usage

Import module:

Note

Requires HttpClientModule for the image upload.

// Needs to import HttpClientModule
import { HttpClientModule} from '@angular/common/http';
import { AngularEditorModule } from '@wfpena/angular-wysiwyg';

@NgModule({
  imports: [ HttpClientModule, AngularEditorModule ]
})

You can use the angular-editor component. Like this:

<angular-editor [placeholder]="'Jot something down...'" [(ngModel)]="htmlContent"></angular-editor>

You can add an id attribute if you are going to use the same element multiple times.

You can customize the editor by passing configs through the [config] attribute.

Like this:

<angular-editor id="editor1" [config]="editorConfig"></angular-editor>
<angular-editor id="editor2" [config]="editorConfig"></angular-editor>

Whe using multiple angular-editor components, add a unique id property to the component.

Adding Images:

By default if you click on the image icon and select an image it will be inserted as base64 string on the img src= attribute.

You can copy and paste external images if you want to add them also.

You can define backend endpoints to save the image or directly send the url of the image which should be passed to the img element.

You can define the uploadUrl config to make a request to the backend to insert the image.

config: AngularEditorConfig = {
  uploadUrl: 'http://localhost:9000/upload_img',
  // ...
};

You can also define the upload config to make the request and map the response into a url to be inserted on the HTML on the editor.

import { HttpClient, HttpResponse } from '@angular/common/http';
import { UploadResponse, AngularEditorConfig } from '@wfpena/angular-wysiwyg';
import { map } from 'rxjs';

// ...

export class AppComponent implements OnInit {
  constructor(
    // ...
    private http: HttpClient,
  ) {}

  config: AngularEditorConfig = {
    // ...
    upload: (file) => {
      const url = 'http://localhost:9000/upload_img';
      const uploadData: FormData = new FormData();
      uploadData.append('file', file, file.name);
      return this.http
        .post<{ file: string; url: string }>(url, uploadData, {
          observe: 'response',
        })
        .pipe(
          map((response) => {
            const imageUrl = response.body.url;
            return {
              ...response,
              body: { imageUrl },
            } as HttpResponse<UploadResponse>;
          }),
        );
    },
    // ...
  };
  // ...
}

Image resize

One of the main features of this project is image resizing option.

You can drag the image to make it bigger or smaller, set max and min sizes through config, etc.

The imageResizeSensitivity config (default 2) defines how fast the image will resize based on the mouse move.

Custom Buttons

You have the flexibility to define custom buttons with specific actions using the executeCommandFn. This function accepts commands from execCommand, where the first argument is aCommandName, and the second argument is aValueArgument.

In the example below, a custom button is created that adds the Angular Editor logo into the editor:

<angular-editor id="editor1" formControlName="htmlContent1" [config]="editorConfig">
  <ng-template #customButtons let-executeCommandFn="executeCommandFn">
    <ae-toolbar-set>
      <ae-button 
        iconClass="fa fa-html5" 
        title="Insert Angular Editor Logo" 
        (buttonClick)="executeCommandFn('insertHtml', angularEditorLogo)">
      </ae-button>
    </ae-toolbar-set>
  </ng-template>
</angular-editor>

Feel free to customize the iconClass, title, and buttonClick event according to your requirements.

Changing the Icons

You can replace the font-awesome images for the buttons by setting the content for the icon class on your project's global .css or .scss file.

Here are some examples of how you might be able to do it. Replace the /assets/<your-icon>.svg with the url for your own custom icon.

.fa.fa-undo::before {
  // Replace the url to the icon that you want
  content: url('/assets/<your-icon>.svg') !important;
}

// Redo
.fa.fa-repeat::before {
  content: url('/assets/<your-icon>.svg') !important;
}

// Strikethrough
.fa.fa-strikethrough::before {
  content: url('/assets/<your-icon>.svg') !important;
}

// Bold
.fa.fa-bold::before {
  content: url('/assets/<your-icon>.svg') !important;
}
// ...

This is currently a workaround for replacing the icon, in the future it will be a new feature on the library.

Changing or Adding new Fonts

1. Download the font that you want to add (or have its url). For example, on this project I downloaded the projects/angular-editor-app/src/assets/fonts/RobotoSlab-VariableFont_wght.ttf font to add as a custom font.

2. Add the font family to your scss or css file. Example for the RobotoSlab example:

@font-face {
  font-family: 'RobotoSlab';
  src: url('./assets/fonts/RobotoSlab-VariableFont_wght.ttf');
}

3. Change the fonts config to either completely override the fonts or add a new custom font. For example, adding the RobotoSlab config to the demo:

// For example here I imported the default fonts from angularEditorConfig and also added a new font that will have the label Roboto Custom
fonts: [
  ...angularEditorConfig.fonts,
  { class: 'roboto-slab', name: 'RobotoSlab', label: 'Roboto Custom' },
],

Configs:

Name	Example Value
customClasses	[{"name": "quote","class": "angular-editor-quote"}]
defaultFontName
defaultFontSize	5
defaultParagraphSeparator
editHistoryLimit	50
editable	true
enableToolbar	true
fonts	[{"class": "arial","name": "Arial"},{"class": "times-new-roman","name": "Times New Roman"},{"class": "calibri","name": "Calibri"},{"class": "comic-sans-ms","name": "Comic Sans MS"}]
height	auto
imageResizeSensitivity	2
maxHeight	auto
minHeight	0
minWidth	0
outline	true
placeholder	Enter text here...
sanitize	true
showToolbar	true
spellcheck	true
textAreaBackgroundColor	white
toolbarPosition	top
translate	yes
uploadWithCredentials	false
width	auto
textPatternsEnabled	true

Report Issues and Feature ideas

You can help make this project better by submitting issues and feature ideas on the repo issues page.