pell is the simplest and smallest WYSIWYG text editor for web, with no dependencies
Live demo: https://jaredreich.com/pell
| library | size (min+gzip) | size (min) | jquery | bootstrap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| pell | 1.11kB | 2.85kB | ||
| medium-editor | 27kB | 105kB | ||
| quill | 43kB | 205kB | ||
| ckeditor | 163kB | 551kB | ||
| summernote | 26kB | 93kB | x | x |
| froala | 52kB | 186kB | x | |
| tinymce | 157kB | 491kB | x |
- Pure JavaScript, no dependencies, written in ES6
- Easily customizable with the sass file (pell.scss) or overwrite the CSS
Current actions:
- Bold
- Italic
- Underline
- Strike-through
- Heading 1
- Heading 2
- Paragraph
- Quote
- Ordered List
- Unordered List
- Code
- Horizontal Rule
- Link
- Image
Other possible future actions:
- Justify Center
- Justify Full
- Justify Left
- Justify Right
- Subscript
- Superscript
- Font Name
- Font Size
- Indent
- Outdent
- Clear Formatting
- Undo
- Redo
- IE 9+
- Chrome 5+
- Firefox 4+
- Safari 5+
- Opera 11.6+
npm install --save pell<head>
...
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="https://unpkg.com/pell/dist/pell.min.css">
<style>
/* override styles here */
.pell-content {
background-color: pink;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
...
<!-- Bottom of body -->
<script src="https://unpkg.com/pell"></script>
</body>// ES6
import pell from 'pell'
// or
import { exec, init } from 'pell'// Browser
pell
// or
window.pell// Initialize pell on an HTMLElement
pell.init({
// <HTMLElement>, required
element: document.getElementById('some-id'),
// <Function>, required
// Use the output html, triggered by element's `oninput` event
onChange: html => console.log(html),
// <boolean>, optional, default = false
// Outputs <span style="font-weight: bold;"></span> instead of <b></b>
styleWithCSS: false,
// <Array[string | Object]>, string if overwriting, object if customizing/creating
// action.name<string> (only required if overwriting)
// action.icon<string> (optional if overwriting, required if custom action)
// action.title<string> (optional)
// action.result<Function> (required)
// Specify the actions you specifically want (in order)
actions: [
'bold',
{
name: 'custom',
icon: 'C',
title: 'Custom Action',
result: () => console.log('YOLO')
},
'underline'
],
// classes<Array[string]> (optional)
// Choose your custom class names
classes: {
actionbar: 'pell-actionbar',
button: 'pell-button',
content: 'pell-content'
}
})
// Execute a document command, see reference:
// https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/API/Document/execCommand
// this is just `document.execCommand(command, false, value)`
pell.exec(command<string>, value<string>)- bold
- italic
- underline
- strikethrough
- heading1
- heading2
- paragraph
- quote
- olist
- ulist
- code
- line
- link
- image
<div id="pell"></div>
<div>
Text output:
<div id="text-output"></div>
HTML output:
<pre id="html-output"></pre>
</div>const editor = pell.init({
element: document.getElementById('pell'),
onChange: html => {
document.getElementById('text-output').innerHTML = html
document.getElementById('html-output').textContent = html
},
styleWithCSS: true,
actions: [
'bold',
'underline',
{
name: 'italic',
result: () => window.pell.exec('italic')
},
{
name: 'custom',
icon: '<b><u><i>C</i></u></b>',
title: 'Custom Action',
result: () => console.log('YOLO')
},
{
name: 'image',
result: () => {
const url = window.prompt('Enter the image URL')
if (url) window.pell.exec('insertImage', ensureHTTP(url))
}
},
{
name: 'link',
result: () => {
const url = window.prompt('Enter the link URL')
if (url) window.pell.exec('createLink', ensureHTTP(url))
}
}
],
classes: {
actionbar: 'pell-actionbar-custom-name',
button: 'pell-button-custom-name',
content: 'pell-content-custom-name'
}
})
// editor.content<HTMLElement>
// To change the editor's content:
editor.content.innerHTML = '<b><u><i>Initial content!</i></u></b>'$pell-content-height: 400px;
// See all overwriteable variables in src/pell.scss
// Then import pell.scss into styles:
@import '../../node_modules/pell/src/pell';/* After pell styles are applied to DOM: */
.pell-content {
height: 400px;
}MIT