Description
Draft.js is a JavaScript rich text editor framework, built for React and backed by an immutable model.
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README
Draft.js

Draft.js is a JavaScript rich text editor framework, built for React and backed by an immutable model.
- Extensible and Customizable: We provide the building blocks to enable the creation of a broad variety of rich text composition experiences, from basic text styles to embedded media.
- Declarative Rich Text: Draft.js fits seamlessly into React applications, abstracting away the details of rendering, selection, and input behavior with a familiar declarative API.
- Immutable Editor State: The Draft.js model is built with immutable-js, offering an API with functional state updates and aggressively leveraging data persistence for scalable memory usage.
Learn how to use Draft.js in your own project.
API Notice
Before getting started, please be aware that we recently changed the API of
Entity storage in Draft. The latest version, v0.10.0
, supports both the old
and new API. Following that up will be v0.11.0
which will remove the old API.
If you are interested in helping out, or tracking the progress, please follow
issue 839.
Getting Started
Currently Draft.js is distributed via npm. It depends on React and React DOM which must also be installed.
npm install --save draft-js react react-dom
or
yarn add draft-js react react-dom
Using Draft.js
import React from 'react';
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import {Editor, EditorState} from 'draft-js';
class MyEditor extends React.Component {
constructor(props) {
super(props);
this.state = {editorState: EditorState.createEmpty()};
this.onChange = (editorState) => this.setState({editorState});
this.setEditor = (editor) => {
this.editor = editor;
};
this.focusEditor = () => {
if (this.editor) {
this.editor.focus();
}
};
}
componentDidMount() {
this.focusEditor();
}
render() {
return (
<div style={styles.editor} onClick={this.focusEditor}>
<Editor
ref={this.setEditor}
editorState={this.state.editorState}
onChange={this.onChange}
/>
</div>
);
}
}
const styles = {
editor: {
border: '1px solid gray',
minHeight: '6em'
}
};
ReactDOM.render(
<MyEditor />,
document.getElementById('container')
);
Since the release of React 16.8, you can use Hooks as a way to work with EditorState
without using a class.
import React from 'react';
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import {Editor, EditorState} from 'draft-js';
function MyEditor() {
const [editorState, setEditorState] = React.useState(
EditorState.createEmpty()
);
const editor = React.useRef(null);
function focusEditor() {
editor.current.focus();
}
React.useEffect(() => {
focusEditor()
}, []);
return (
<div onClick={focusEditor}>
<Editor
ref={editor}
editorState={editorState}
onChange={editorState => setEditorState(editorState)}
/>
</div>
);
}
Note that the editor itself is only as tall as its contents. In order to give users a visual cue, we recommend setting a border and a minimum height via the .DraftEditor-root
CSS selector, or using a wrapper div like in the above example.
Because Draft.js supports unicode, you must have the following meta tag in the <head>
</head>
block of your HTML file:
<meta charset="utf-8" />
Further examples of how Draft.js can be used are provided below.
Examples
Visit http://draftjs.org/ to try out a basic rich editor example.
The repository includes a variety of different editor examples to demonstrate some of the features offered by the framework.
To run the examples, first build Draft.js locally:
git clone https://github.com/facebook/draft-js.git
cd draft-js
npm install
npm run build
then open the example HTML files in your browser.
Draft.js is used in production on Facebook, including status and comment inputs, Notes, and messenger.com.
Browser Support
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IE11, Edge [1, 2] | last 2 versions | last 2 versions | last 2 versions | not fully supported [3] | not fully supported [3] |
[1] May need a shim or a polyfill for some syntax used in Draft.js (docs).
[2] IME inputs have known issues in these browsers, especially Korean (docs).
[3] There are known issues with mobile browsers, especially on Android (docs).
Resources and Ecosystem
Check out this curated list of articles and open-sourced projects/utilities: Awesome Draft-JS.
Discussion and Support
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Contribute
We actively welcome pull requests. Learn how to contribute.
License
Draft.js is MIT licensed.
Examples provided in this repository and in the documentation are separately licensed.
*Note that all licence references and agreements mentioned in the Draft.js README section above
are relevant to that project's source code only.