CKEditor 5
Modern JavaScript rich text editor with a modular architecture. Its clean UI and features provide the perfect WYSIWYG UX ❤️ for creating semantic content.
- Written in ES6 with MVC architecture, custom data model, virtual DOM.
- Responsive images and media embeds (videos, tweets).
- Custom output format: HTML and Markdown support.
- Boost productivity with auto-formatting and collaboration.
- Extensible and customizable by design.
Collaboration
With CKEditor 5, every application can become online collaboration software. Boost your productivity with faster review and instant delivery.
- Real-time collaborative editing for documents.
- Track changes.
- Comments, discussions, users panel with avatars.
- Comment-only mode for text suggestions.
- Support for all rich-text features, including tables or media.
Revision History
With this upcoming CKEditor 5 feature you can create and view document versions and control the progress of your content efficiently.
- Create, view, compare, restore and name versions.
- Save versions manually or configure automatic save cycles.
- Add changes in the editor and track them in version preview mode.
- Perfect for elaborate documents with single or multiple authors.
- Can be used standalone or with collaboration features.
Export to PDF and Word
Easily generate a PDF or Word file from your editor content. Styles of the original content will be maintained in the exported file.
- Ready to use with CKEditor 5 and CKEditor 4.
- Support for page breaks and embedding images.
- Suggestions and comments visible in the exported Word file.
- Setting header and footer to be included in the PDF file.e.
- Pagination to help users better structure their content.
Image upload
Flexible image upload and file manager tools for adding responsive images, videos or PDF files to your content.
- One-click hassle-free drag&drop file upload support.
- Top-notch security with granular user permissions.
- File and folder management: upload, delete, move, categorize.
- Built-in image editor with image crop and resize or filters.
- Multiple storage options: local file server, FTP and cloud support.
Why CKEditor?
30.000+ customers have already trusted us. This gives us a solid foundation on which we can develop the editor.
32.000+ tests
Automated, manual, unit and integration tests for CKEditor 4 and CKEditor 5. Software quality is in our DNA. We know that delivering rock-solid components to external applications and being a reliable partner is crucial. We spend over 50% of our time on writing tests and documentation.
30M+ downloads
The number of CKEditor downloads. The number of users exceeds hundreds of millions. With such a huge user base, we receive a lot of valuable feedback — issues, feature requests or requests for documentation clarification. A large number of users helps us evolve and improve every day.
400+ articles
Articles in the documentation (+6000 pages with API documentation). CKEditor is not just the interface that one can use to write. It is a component with a rich, well-documented API that allows developers to write custom features on top of it. The community created over 400 publicly available plugins for CKEditor 4 thanks to such an approach.
24.000+ questions
The number of StackOverflow questions related to CKEditor. You are in good company! If it happens that you cannot find an answer in the documentation, there is a huge chance that you will find it already on StackOverflow. Oh, and we are active there, too :)
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