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springload / draftail

📝🍸 A configurable rich text editor built with Draft.js
https://www.draftail.org/
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Is draftail a React only library? #360

Closed breneser closed 4 years ago

breneser commented 4 years ago

Searching through documentation to try and get Draftail work with a simple html TextArea but nothing on the documentation. I had impression Draftail was to be used as a React.js library, but not entirely sure.

How can I get Draftail fire up on a simple html page to edit a text area?

Below page embeds the editor as an iframe ? I suspect the library maybe is not what I am looking for but I was suggested to use this. Want to make sure I am not getting this all wrong.

Thanks for you help.

https://www.draftail.org/docs/formatting-options

Which terms did you search for in the docs, issues, Stack Overflow?

thibaudcolas commented 4 years ago

Hi @breneser,

Yep, Draftail is React only. You can technically use it in an app / site that’s otherwise not built with React, but there are many other rich text editors that are more suited to scenarios like this. Draftail is a contenteditable (like most/all modern rich text editors), so it’s also not meant to be used with a textarea.

I’m surprised you didn’t manage to figure this out for yourself – searching "without React" in the docs’ search form, the first result I covers this very dependency: https://www.draftail.org/docs/getting-started#why-we-need-draftjs-and-react.

breneser commented 4 years ago

Hi @thibaudcolas

Thanks for the answer. Can't believe I missed that :) I definitely searched, even searched Github repo. Also skimming through docs I saw the code and realised that's a React code example and didn't check whole of that page and quickly skipped to other pages :)

Definitely my bad, appreciate the response.

thibaudcolas commented 4 years ago

That’s alright, don’t worry about it 👌 I took a bit of time to set up this issue template with prompts to check other sources, so I appreciate that you took the time to use it – and if someone else is looking for the same info in the future, then now there is one more occasion to find it.