CKEditor 5 features

Set custom rules for converting text strings into special characters or symbols, such as (tm) for ™ or 1/2 for ½.

Use Markdown shortcodes to add simple formatting, including bold, italics, headings, lists and more.

Automatically turns URLs and email addresses within your text into clickable hyperlinks.

Make sure nothing gets lost by automatically saving your document every time a change is made.

Apply simple text formatting, including bold, italics, strikethrough, underline, subscript, and superscript.

Add emphasis to quoted text by styling it as block quotes, also known as pull quotes.

Give CKEditor the ability to handle any copy-paste commands for content going into or out of the editor.

Style text as inline code, rather than as a code block, to make reading and layout simpler.

Add the ability to type new text inside an existing code block or inline code element.

Enter pre-formatted code and style it as a block, with the programming language marked.

Add an automatically updated visual scrolling preview of the document alongside the editor, to make navigation easier.

Lets you grab any multimedia or text, including images, tables, and even HTML, and drop it into the editor.

Search for words or phrases in your text and replace them with alternative text.

Change the styling of text, including changing text colors, background colors, fonts, and text size.

Lets developers easily configure which HTML elements, attributes, styles and classes CKEditor supports.

Add pre-set heading styles to your document, with h1 for the most prominent headings, through to h6 for the least prominent.

Insert a horizontal line into your document to visually separate content.

Embed a snippet of HTML code in your document. Ideal for adding and interacting with HTML elements.

Add description text, AKA alternative text, for images. Alt text improves accessibility by telling screen readers and search engines what the image depicts.

Add optional captions for images, which are shown below the picture.

The image feature allows adding images of various kinds to the rich content inside the editor. A large set of subfeatures lets the users fully control this process.

Add hyperlinks to images within your document.

Change the size of inserted images by dragging resize handles or using toolbar buttons.

Align images to the left, right, or center of the page.

Upload images to use in CKEditor. Choose from the official upload adapters (CKBox, CKFinder, Base64 or the Simple Upload Adapter) or create a custom adapter.

Indent blocks of text in your document, including paragraphs, lists, and headings.

Use common keyboard shortcuts inside CKEditor, including cut, copy, paste, and undo.

Add hyperlinks to text within your document.

Indent entire lists or list items.

Add different styles for bulleted and numbered lists.

Add unordered dot-point lists to your document. Plus, change the style and shape of the bullet points.

Add ordered, numbered lists to your document. Plus, change the style and starting number of the list.

Add numbered lists to your document that count downwards instead of upwards.

Add a to-do list to your document, with checkboxes for ticking off items as they’re completed.

Switch the default output from HTML to Markdown. Coupled with Autoformatting, this makes CKEditor a powerful Markdown editor.

Insert multimedia, including videos, social media posts or even Google Maps into your document.

Use, @ or another symbol of your choice, to tag users, groups, and topics in your document. Combine with Comments for a GDocs-style experience.

Organize your editor's features with intuitive navigation and quick access to a range of functionalities, easily customizable to include buttons for custom plugins.

Insert page breaks into your document so you can better structure your content for print.

Copy-paste content from Google Docs directly into CKEditor, preserving styles and formatting.

Copy-paste content from MS Office apps, including Word and Excel, directly into CKEditor, and preserve your styles and formatting.

Use Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+V to paste text into the editor and have it match the surrounding formatting.

Insert predefined variables, like the current date, into the document.

Add placeholder text to display when there’s no content inside the editor.

Use the API to create your own plugins for CKEditor and make use of our flexible, modular architecture.

Prevent users from editing the content. However, read-only content is still accessible to screen readers and can be copied.

Clear any formatting and styling applied to the selected text.

Add support for responsive images stored in CKBox or supplied via a custom upload adapter.

Use the range of RESTful APIs to create server-to-server integrations.

Set some sections of your document as uneditable by users and others as editable.

Use a toolbar button or keyboard shortcut to instantly select all content in the editor.

View and edit the HTML source of a document.

Insert specialist characters such as mathematical symbols, currency symbols, unique punctuation or glyphs.

Add a table inside the cell of another table.

Change the formatting of tables and individual table cells, including background colors, text alignment, and borders.

Add explanatory captions to your tables.

Resize entire tables and change the width of individual columns.

Select a group of cells within a table.

Insert tables into your document.

Add or remove rows and columns from tables.

Combine and split multiple cells within a table.

Change the alignment of text in your document, including options for left, right, center, and justify.

Mark which language a section of text is written in.

Add a title field at the top of your document.

The standard toolbar interface for the editor, with dropdown menus and buttons for different functions.

A floating toolbar that pops up when content is selected in the editor.

A hidden toolbar on the left-hand side of the editor, which pops up when the Block Toolbar button is pressed.

Allows the standard toolbar to extend over multiple lines.

CKEditor 5 is compatible with popular CSS frameworks, including Bootstrap, Foundation, Materialize, and Semantic UI.

Choose from 41 different languages for the CKEditor UI, or use one of the many community translations.

Customize the CKEditor UI using templates and the modular UI Library.

Lets you undo and redo changes in your document.

Protects from data loss in the unlikely event of an unexpected crash.

Track the number of words and characters in your document.