There are certain features in editors or word processors that people tend to overlook, even though many of them use these on a daily basis. One such feature is the word and character count. An everyday user may not pay much attention to it, as it was originally aimed primarily at people who need to meet specific word limits while writing. Read the blog post to discover its usefulness in your favorite WYSIWYG editor.

Among features offered by CKEditor 5 WYSIWYG editor, some are widely used (like text formatting or images) and some are rather specialized (like restricted editing or read-only mode). There are only a few features, however, that are so versatile and applicable to so many use cases and solutions as lists.

Welcome to the “Feature of the month” blog post. Kickstarting this new series in 2021, we want to spotlight and present selected features we offer with CKEditor 5. Every month, we will present the functions that we find especially interesting or in need of better recognition from our users. This is all in the hope to bring a better editing experience to you.

The content in the CKEditor 5 is represented by a custom data model. It provides a layer of abstraction over the HTML data that is used to store the content (the data view). To translate the model representation to the target data format (in most cases HTML), the developer must provide a set of converters. This article showcases another approach to writing model-to-view converters and introduces a JSX-compatible syntax that allows to write converters by defining the expected output with syntax that is similar to the HTML data format.

Working hard on creating content? Fair enough. We will make your work comfortable, with easy access to all the features you need. Welcome to our newest batch of UI enhancements: the multiline (wrapping) toolbar that you all asked for and the accessible input labels on interface items! Not convenient enough? Upload images by pasting their URL, track changes for pasting table styles, integrate with Vue.js 3, use Markdown shortcodes… Simply put - write well, edit well, stay well.

CKEditor is an open source rich-text editor. Even though it is mostly developed by CKSource, it has a large community of contributors backing the development efforts. One of the popular questions that we receive time and time again is the availability of Markdown editing. The simple answer is yes. Let’s dive a little deeper into this topic to get a more elaborate answer as to how.

New, advanced features are coming onboard. Embedding arbitrary HTML opens new possibilities for webmasters, while the reconversion introduced in CKEditor v23.1.0 is a great step toward easier, more reliable handling of the downcast conversion process. Pasting tables into tables in track changes mode, documentation updates and a new release of the React component will also, hopefully, please the CKEditor community.

Improved plain text pasting coupled with a new pagination feature that lets you control the structure of your output and autolink added to editor builds bring forth an overall excellent experience in WYSIWYG editing. This release also brings enhancements to list styles and image upload. What you edit has never looked so good and so very much exactly the way you want it. Meet CKEditor 5 v23.0.0!

The CKEditor export to PDF and export to Word features are now out of beta. Harness the power of the world’s most popular document file types with these integrated solutions — WYSIWYG editor plugins and a SaaS or on-premises converter service with a REST API. Print, send and store your HTML content any way you want with a single click. Try it now!

The newest CKEditor 5 is here and it brings a plethora of changes and improvements. There is a new easy way to add images to your documents and you can choose from a variety of list item markers available. The export to PDF and Word features are now out of beta and a new pagination feature is coming soon. Hopefully, all these changes will increase your content creation productivity.

We are happy to announce the official launch of the new export to PDF feature for CKEditor 4 and CKEditor 5. This feature allows you to easily print the content of your WYSIWYG editor to a PDF file. What's more, the generated PDF document will preserve not only the rich-text content that you create in the editor, but also its structure and styling. Read on for more information!

We are happy to announce the release of CKEditor 5 v19.1.1 that introduces further enhancements for the table feature, improved typing around widgets as well as the new PDF export feature. In addition to that, we focused on the adjustments of the editor's development tools to the newly adopted monorepo infrastructure. Read on for more details about these and other improvements!

Collaborative writing is one of the most popular ways to write. Since the first time users started writing online, collaboration technologies have changed a lot. It is now possible to implement collaborative writing in your own application but how should you do it?

We are happy to announce the release of CKEditor 5 v17.0.0 that introduces two major and frequently requested features: table styling support and the special characters plugin. In addition to that, we worked on data processing and editor initialization performance as well as on bug fixes. Last but not least, an online builder for CKEditor 5 is now available for all your custom WYSIWYG editor builds. There are also some breaking changes, so read on for more details!

There are many WYSIWYG editors on the market and they come in different flavors. At CKEditor, we believe that your needs should shape the editor that you choose, not the other way around. Instead of creating a one-size-fits-all product, we design our editors in a way that makes it easy to mix and match the features and UI you want. With the release of CKEditor 5 online builder, we have just made the editor customization process easy and intuitive!

We are happy to announce the release of CKEditor 5 v15.0.0. This editor version introduces support for inserting horizontal lines, page breaks and SVG images into the WYSIWYG editor. It also allows you to define the document title section thanks to the new title plugin. The editor toolbar is now responsive, which improves the UX, especially for mobile devices. But there is more - so read on!

It has been a while since we updated you about how we are doing on the collaboration front. Today, we are happy to announce that all three of CKEditor 5 collaboration features - comments, track changes, and real-time collaborative editing are now in perfect harmony. You can edit, use key features like tables, paste from Word and Google Docs, comment or suggest changes on the document with collaborators. All in real-time.

When you are creating a complex system from scratch, you have hundreds of problems to solve and the amount of data you send over the network is usually not the first one to be tackled. It was no different in CKEditor 5.

We are happy to announce the release of CKEditor 5 v12.4.0. This editor version introduces Paste from Google Docs, image resizing, a simple image upload adapter, to-do lists, right-to-left language support as well as a spell and grammar checker and support for creating math and chemical formulas right in the WYSIWYG editor content. There is more — so read on!

We are happy to announce the release of CKEditor 5 v12.2.0. This time we focused on bug fixes and improvements to existing rich-text editor features. We also worked on the contextual balloon functionality in order to provide inline annotations for comments and suggestions as well as a mechanism to easily navigate between the balloons. Read more!

We are happy to announce the release of CKEditor 5 v12.1.0. A month ago, we have seen some really positive feedback regarding the previous release of CKEditor 5 in which we introduced such features as inline widgets, distraction-free editor and support for multi-root editors. This version is no different and it brings four new long-awaited features (mention, font and background color, and remove formatting) as well as many improvements to the editor and our documentation.

We are happy to announce the release of the native integration of CKEditor 5 with Vue.js, the progressive JavaScript framework. This brings the number of available CKEditor 5 rich-text editor integrations with popular frameworks to three, after the Angular 2+ and React integrations published a few weeks ago.

We are happy to announce the release of CKEditor 5 v11.2.0. The latest editor version brings the long-awaited support for paste from Office (e.g. from Microsoft Word) and integration with the CKFinder file uploader. We have also enhanced the image upload documentation, improved the editor UI on mobile devices and introduced many smaller features and improvements.

We are happy to announce the first two integrations of CKEditor 5 with popular JavaScript frameworks: React and Angular 2+. We want to make installing and integrating CKEditor 5 as simple and intuitive as possible.