Rich text field - 5 UI

Deprecated

This rich text field definition has been deprecated since Magnolia 6.0. It is part of the Magnolia 5 UI framework.

For the updated implementation, see Rich text field for Magnolia 6 UI instead.

RichTextFieldDefinition renders a rich text editor. This is a custom Magnolia field that implements the CKEditor component.

class: info.magnolia.ui.form.field.definition.RichTextFieldDefinition

fieldType: richText

Text form with example text

Rich Text field properties

Simple rich text field definition:

form:
  tabs:
    - name: tabText
      label: Text
      fields:
        - name: text
          fieldType: richText
          tables: true
          height: 500
          label: Text Editor

Referencing fields shortcut info - 5 UI

See Referencing fields for further information.

Property Description

alignment

optional, default is false

Text alignment for paragraphs. When set to true, this option adds alignment buttons (left, center, right, justify) in the toolbar.

colors

optional

Colors displayed in the color selectors. Comma-separated a string of hexadecimal color codes without the prefix, for example 00923E,F8C100,28166F. See http://docs.ckeditor.com/!/api/CKEDITOR.config-cfg-colorButton_colors[CKEditor documentation] for more.

configJsFile

optional

Location of a custom CKEditor configuration file, e.g. /.resources/ckeditor/config-magnolia.js. You can link to a file in the resources workspace, filesystem or classpath. See Origins and loading order for more.

The default configuration files can be found in magnolia-ui-framework/src/main/resources/mgnl-resources/ckeditor/

  • config-magnolia.js (Git): Magnolia default configuration file.

  • config-default.js (Git): CKEditor configuration file.

If you use a custom configuration file Magnolia will ignore all the other configured properties.

A custom configuration allows you control over the config.extraPlugins setting, but also means you need to the magnolialink and magnoliaFileBrowser plugins into your file. See the default config-magnolia.js for how to include the plugins.

fonts

optional

List of font names displayed in the Font selector in the toolbar, for example Arial/Arial,sans-serif;Times New Roman/Times New Roman,serif. Separate entries with a semi-colon (;). It’s possible to have more than one font for each entry separated by comma. A display name may be optionally defined by prefixing the entries with the name and the slash character. See

fontSizes

optional

List of fonts size displayed in the Font selector in the toolbar, for example 16/16px;24/24px;48/48px. Separate entries with a semi-colon (;). Any CSS-supported size can be used: 12px, 2.3em, 130%, larger or x-small. A display name may be optionally defined by prefixing the entries with the name and the slash character. For example, Bigger Font/14px will be displayed as Bigger Font in the list, but will be outputted as 14px. See CKEditor documentation for more.

height

optional, default is `300`

The height of the editing area, including the toolbar, for example 500. This configuration option accepts an integer (to denote a value in pixels) or any CSS-defined length unit except percent (%) values.

images

optional, default is false

Allows images to be added from the DAM. When set to true, this option adds an image button in the toolbar. A user can define the size and alignment of the image, and some metadata.

lists

optional, default is true

Allows bulleted and numbered lists. When set to false, this option removes list buttons from the toolbar.

source

optional, default is false

Allows toggling between text and HTML editing. When set to true, this option adds a source button to the toolbar.

tables

optional, default is false

Allows tables to be added. When set to true, this option adds a tables button in the toolbar.

validators

optional, default is info.magnolia.ui.form.validator.definition.SafeHtmlValidatorDefinition

List of validators configured globally in the global field validators configuration.

Common field properties - 5 UI

Property Description

fieldType`or `class

required

Defines the field type via either a field alias name or a fully-qualified field definition class name. See Field definition: Field types.

To check the correct form of the name, use the Definitions app.

defaultValue

optional

Pre-filled default value displayed in the field. The value can be overwritten by the user. Use alphanumeric characters.

Applied only when creating a new item, not for already existing items.

description

optional

Help text displayed when the user clicks the help icon. The value can be literal or retrieved from the message bundle with a key. Use alphanumeric characters in literal values. Not applicable to the static field.

i18n

optional, default is false

Enables i18n authoring support which allows editors to write foreign-language or regionally targeted content. A two-letter language identifier (en, de, fr etc.) is displayed on controls where i18n is set to true.

i18nBasename

optional, default is the message bundle defined in the dialog definition_

Message bundle such as com.example.messages for localized field labels. You can set this property in the parent dialog, form or tab definition. Child fields will inherit the bundle.

label

optional

Field label displayed to editors. The value can be literal such as Product name or retrieved from the message bundle with a key such as products.product.label. Use alphanumeric characters in literal values.

If you do not provide the property, Magnolia will fall back to a generated i18n key and display the key in the UI.

If you do not want a label at all, define the property and set its value to a blank space such as label: " " in YAML.

name

optional, default is the name of the field’s parent node_

Name of the node where the value is saved. The name jcrName is reserved. Use alphanumeric characters.

placeholder

optional

Placeholder text to be displayed when the field is empty. The value is i18n-able.

Applicable to text, link and combobox fields.

readOnly

optional, default is false

Makes the field uneditable. Adding this property has the same effect as creating a static field.

required

optional, default is false

Makes the field required (mandatory). An asterisk is displayed next to the field label. See also Checking for null values.

requiredErrorMessage

optional, default is This field is required

Error message displayed when required is true and the user saves an empty field. The value can be literal or retrieved from the message bundle with a key such as validation.message.required.

styleName

optional

Adds one or more style names to this component. Multiple styles can be specified as a space-separated list of style names such as checkbox disabled. The style name will be rendered as an HTML class name, which can be used in a CSS definition. The class name is added to the field by calling the Vaadin method addStyleName.

transformerClass

optional

Property transformer classes define how field values are stored in the repository. Each field has a default transformer class. You don’t need to define a class unless you want to override the default. The value is a fully-qualified class name.

Complex field definitions may define a different default transformer in their constructor. See Transforming field values for more.

type

optional, most fields set a default value automatically

JCR property type of the stored value such as String, Boolean, Date or any other supported and defined data type.

There are three link buttons:

  • External link icon Links to external pages

  • Internal link icon Links to internal pages

  • DAM link icon Links to documents in the DAM

Loading order for custom configuration

Any configuration done in RichTextFieldFactory will override configuration settings from the config.js file. This is why we ignore other properties in the field definition as soon as a configJsFile is configured.

Decode text

CKEditor produces HTML such as <p> elements for paragraphs. However, text stored in JCR usually escapes HTML code. To render text which originates from a rich text field you need to decode the stored content to make sure the HTML tags are rendered properly again.

Decode the content object and then get the desired property from it:

${cmsfn.decode(content).text!""}

Impact on the search index

Keep in mind that using the RTE introduces HTML into your content. The impact of this is that the HTML will be indexed along with the content.

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