Tag: Editor Profile

How to add a custom button into the Rich Text Editor

This is the fourth post in the series about Rich Text Editor (RTE) in Sitecore. The first post which was about the basics of setting up the RTE could be found here.

Sitecore is an incredibly good platform that provides a lot of functionality out of the box, but the greatest thing about Sitecore is that if there is something you’d like to customize, there’s always a way to do it. I’m going to walk through the process of adding a custom piece of functionality to Sitecore’s Rich Text Editor. There are a lot of reasons you would want to do this but for this example we’ll build a simple text insertion demo that you can expand upon.

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How to setup the Rich Text Editor in Sitecore – The basics

Sitecore is an incredibly good platform that provides a lot of functionality out of the box, but one of the great things about Sitecore is that if there is something custom that you’d like to add in, there’s always a way to do it.

In this post I’m going to describe the main purpose of RichTextEditor and inroduce you th the ways of its extension.

 What is the Rich Text Editor in Sitecore

The Rich Text Editor is the main tool for authors in Sitecore for entering and editing the content of a website. It is the tool through which text is maintained in Rich Text fields in Sitecore templates. It can be used in both the Content Editor and the Page Editor in a popup window, but is not to be confused with the webedit field in the page editor.

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Opening the Rich Text Editor from the content editor

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