Creating custom Group toolbar buttons

A group toolbar button is a toolbar button that contains a collection of other toolbar buttons that are displayed in a pop-up when clicked. The style of toolbar shown is based on the current toolbar mode. For example, if toolbar_mode is set to floating, the toolbar group pop-up will appear in a floating shelf.

The group toolbar button is only supported when using the floating toolbar mode. If the toolbar_groups option is used with other toolbar modes, the toolbar group button will not be displayed and a warning message will be printed in the console.

Options

Name Value Requirement Description

text

string

optional

Text to display if no icon is found.

icon

string

optional

Name of the icon to be displayed. Must correspond to an icon: in the icon pack, in a custom icon pack, or added using the addIcon API.

tooltip

string

optional

Text for button tooltip.

items

string or LabelledToolbar[]

required

A string of space separated toolbar button names, or an array of labelled toolbar buttons.

onSetup

(api) => (api) => void

optional

default: () => () => {} - Function that’s invoked when the button is rendered. For details, see: Using onSetup.

NOTE: This feature is only available for TinyMCE 7.4 and later.

context

string

optional

default: mode:design - The context property dynamically enables or disables the button based on the editor’s current state. For details, see: Context.

API

Name Value Description

isEnabled

() => boolean

Checks if the button is enabled.

setEnabled

(state: boolean) => void

Sets the button’s enabled state.

NOTE: This feature is only available for TinyMCE 6.4 and later.

setText

(text: string) => void

Sets the text label to display.

setIcon

(icon: string) => void

Sets the icon of the button.

Group toolbar button example and explanation

The following is a simple group toolbar button example:

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<textarea id="custom-toolbar-group-button">
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</textarea>
tinymce.init({
  selector: 'textarea#custom-toolbar-group-button',
  height: 500,
  toolbar_mode: 'floating',
  toolbar: 'alignment',
  setup: (editor) => {

    /* example, adding a group toolbar button */
    editor.ui.registry.addGroupToolbarButton('alignment', {
      icon: 'align-left',
      tooltip: 'Alignment',
      items: 'alignleft aligncenter alignright | alignjustify'
    });

  },
  content_style: 'body { font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:16px }'
});

The example above configures a custom alignment group toolbar button. When clicked the button will show a floating shelf containing the align left, center, right and justify toolbar buttons.

Using onSetup

onSetup is a complex property. It takes a function that is passed the component’s API and should return a callback that is passed the component’s API and returns nothing. This occurs because onSetup runs whenever the component is rendered, and the returned callback is executed when the component is destroyed. This is essentially an onTeardown handler, and can be used to unbind events and callbacks.

To clarify, in code onSetup may look like this:

onSetup: (api) => {
  // Do something here on component render, like set component properties or bind an event listener

  return (api) => {
    // Do something here on teardown, like unbind an event listener
  };
};

To bind a callback function to an editor event use editor.on(eventName, callback). To unbind an event listener use editor.off(eventName, callback). Any event listeners should be unbound in the teardown callback. The only editor event which does not need to be unbound is init e.g. editor.on('init', callback).

  • The callback function for editor.off() should be the same function passed to editor.on(). For example, if a editorEventCallback function is bound to the NodeChange event when the button is created, onSetup should return (api) => editor.off('NodeChange', editorEventCallback).

  • If onSetup does not have any event listeners or only listens to the init event, onSetup can return an empty function e.g. return () => {};.