Lightweight Powerful Text Editor With JavaScript

This is a lightweight yet powerful and extendable text editor written in pure JavaScript.

Features:

• Markdown, Textile and BBCode plugins.
• Internationalization
• Maximize/Minimize
• Table Grid Selector
• Common String Converters
• Native Emoji
• Bubble Tools
• Editor Grow
• Autocomplete
• Word Counter
• HTML Preview
• Help Panel
• Find and Replace
• Special Characters

Keyboard Shortcuts

• ⌘+y → Redo
• ⌘+z → Undo
• ⌥+F10 → Focus Tools. Focus to the first tool item in the tools bar. Use arrow keys to navigate between tools.
• ⎋ → Release Focus. Release editor focus by focusing on the next focusable element.
• ⇥ → Indent
• ⇧+⇥ → Outdent

Basic usage:

Load the following JavaScript and CSS files into the html document.

<link href="text-editor/ui.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
<link href="text-editor/ui.i.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
<script src="text-editor.min.js"></script>
<script src="text-editor/ui.min.js"></script>
<script src="text-editor/ui/h-t-m-l.min.js"></script>

Load a plugin of your choice in the document.

<!-- BBCode plugin -->
<script src="text-editor/ui/b-b-code.min.js"></script>
<!-- Markdown plugin -->
<script src="text-editor/ui/markdown.min.js"></script>
<!-- Textile plugin -->
<script src="text-editor/ui/textile.min.js"></script>

Create a regular textarea element for the text editor.

<textarea id="editor"></textarea>

Create a new text editor from the textarea element.

var editor = TE.ui.HTML(document.querySelector('#editor'));

Possible options to customize the text editor.

var editor = TE.ui.HTML(document.querySelector('#editor'),{
    // custom indent characte
    tab: '  ',
    // or 'dir'
    direction: 'ltr',
    // directory path of text-editor.min.js file
    path: TE.path,
    // enable/disable text area resize handler
    resize: true,
    // enable/disable keyboard shortcut feature.
    keys: true,
    // list of tools to be included to the tools bar, each of them separated by a space.
    tools: 'indent outdent | undo redo',
    // extra HTML attributes to be added to the text area element
    attributes: {
      'spellcheck': 'false'
    },
    
    // auto tab
    auto_tab: true,
    // auto close the following markups
    auto_close: {
        '"': '"',
        "'": "'",
        '(': ')',
        '{': '}',
        '[': ']',
        '<': '>'
    },
    // localization
    languages: {
      tools: {
        tools: ['Focus Tools', _u2325 + '+F10'],
        undo: ['Undo', _u2318 + '+Z'],
        redo: ['Redo', _u2318 + '+Y'],
        indent: ['Indent',  _u21E5],
        outdent: ['Outdent',  _u21E7 + '+' + _u21E5]
      },
      buttons: {
        okay: 'OK',
        cancel: 'Cancel',
        yes: 'Yes',
        no: 'No',
        enter: 'Enter',
        exit: 'Exit',
        open: 'Open',
        close: 'Close',
        ignore: 'Ignore'
      },
      placeholders: {
        "": 'text here' + _u2026
      },
      labels: {},
      others: {}
    },
    // default classes
    classes: {
      "": 'text-editor',
      i: 'text-editor-i text-editor-i-%1 text-editor-i-%2'
    }
    
});

Changelog:

09/15/2018

• Refactor