CKEditor 4 plugin equivalents

The following table presents plugins available in CKEditor 4 and their equivalent in CKEditor 5.

CKEditor 4	CKEditor 5
a11yhelp	N/A
about	N/A
ajax	N/A
autocomplete	Partially covered by Mentions
autoembed	Auto media embed
autogrow	Core (see Classic editor and setting its height)
autolink	Autolink
balloonpanel	Balloon panel view
balloontoolbar	Contextual balloon
basicstyles	Basic styles
bbcode	N/A
bidi	Partially available via configuration and the Language plugin
blockquote	Block quote
button	Button view
ckfinder	CKFinder
clipboard	Clipboard
cloudservices	Cloud Services
codesnippet	Partially covered by Code blocks
codesnippetgeshi	N/A
colorbutton	Font color and Font background color
colordialog	N/A
contextmenu	N/A
copyformatting	Format painter
devtools	N/A
dialog	N/A
dialogadvtab	N/A
dialogui	N/A
div	Partially covered by General HTML Support
divarea	Core (Classic editor)
docprops	N/A
easyimage	Easy Image
editorplaceholder	Editor placeholder
elementspath	N/A
embed	Media embed
embedbase	Media embed configuration
embedsemantic	Media embed configuration
emoji	N/A
enterkey	Enter (except for the `ENTER_DIV` option)
entities	N/A
fakeobjects	Custom widgets
filebrowser	See image upload
filetools	See image upload
find	Find and replace
flash	N/A
floatingspace	Inline editor
floatpanel	Partially covered by the createDropdown() utility
font	Font size and Font family
format	Partially covered by the Heading and Paragraph features
forms	N/A
horizontalrule	Horizontal line
htmlwriter	A custom HTML writer can be implemented using the HtmlWriter interface
iframe	HTML embed
iframedialog	N/A
image	Image
image2	Image
imagebase	Image
indent	Indent
indentblock	Introduced by IndentBlock, exposed by Indent
indentlist	Introduced by ListEditing, exposed by Indent
justify	Text alignment
language	Text part language
lineutils	Partially covered by Widget type around
link	Link
list	List
listblock	Dropdowns and the addListToDropdown() utility
liststyle	List properties
magicline	Widget type around
mathjax	MathType
maximize	N/A
mentions	Mentions
menu	Dropdowns
menubutton	Dropdowns
newpage	N/A
notification	Notification (provides only the engine, without UI)
notificationaggregator	N/A
pagebreak	Page break
panel	UI library
panelbutton	UI library
pastefromgdocs	Paste from Google Docs
pastefromlibreoffice	N/A
pastefromword	Paste from Office
pastetext	Paste plain text
pastetools	N/A
placeholder	Custom implementation
popup	N/A
preview	N/A
print	N/A
removeformat	Remove format
resize	N/A
richcombo	DropdownView
save	See Saving data
selectall	Select all
sharedspace	Custom implementation - see multi-root editor
showblocks	Show blocks
showborders	Table properties
smiley	N/A
sourcearea	Source editing
sourcedialog	N/A
specialchar	Special characters
stylescombo	Style
stylesheetparser	N/A
tab	See Keyboard support
table	Table
tableresize	Table column resize
tableselection	Table selection
tabletools	Table properties
templates	Template
textmatch	N/A
textwatcher	Text watcher
toolbar	Editor toolbar
uicolor	See Theme customization
undo	Undo
uploadfile	See image upload
uploadimage	See image upload
uploadwidget	See image upload
widget	Widget
widgetselection	Widget
wysiwygarea	Core (Classic editor - there is no iframe-based editor implementation in CKEditor 5)
xml	XML data processor

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