General

focus #

Type: Boolean

Default: false

By default, Redactor doesn't receive focus on load, because there may be other input fields on a page. However, to set focus to the editor, you can use this setting:

Redactor('#entry', {
    focus: true
});

breakline #

Type: Boolean

Default: false

Enables br tags to be created when enter key is pressed. Also in this case the editor does not surround the text with paragraph tags.

Redactor('#entry', {
    breakline: true
});

markup #

Type: String

Default: p

Turns on text markup with div tags.

Redactor('#entry', {
    markup: 'div'
});

clicktoedit #

Type: Boolean

Default: false

Enables the ability to launch the editor by clicking on an element.

Redactor('#entry', {
    clicktoedit: true
});

See live example.

command #

Type: Boolean

Default: true

This setting turns off the Command palette call when a slash (/) character is typed.

Redactor('#entry', {
    command: false
});

See how Command palette works

theme #

Type: String

Default: auto

Force the editor to run in a dark or light theme.

Redactor('#entry', {
    theme: 'dark' // or 'light'
});

disabled #

Type: Boolean

Default: false

Starts the editor by default disabled.

Redactor('#entry', {
    disabled: true
});

classname #

Type: String

Default: rx-content

Sets the class with the content styles.

Redactor('#entry', {
    classname: 'my-content'
});

output #

Type: String, Boolean

Default: false

Sets the element selector where the editor will output content from the editable area, for any change in the content.

<div id="output"></div>

Redactor('#entry', {
    output: '#output'
});

drop #

Type: Boolean

Default: true

This setting allows you to turn off drag or drop images or any other elements in Redactor.

Redactor('#entry', {
    drop: false
});

sync #

Type: Boolean

Default: true

By default, Redactor synchronizes the visual layer with the textarea in which it creates the output html each time the content is changed. This can be turned off to improve performance.

Redactor('#entry', {
    sync: false
});

addPosition #

Type: String

Default: top

This setting defines where content will be inserted if there is no focus in Redactor. There are two options: top - at the beginning of the editor, bottom - at the end of the editor content.

Redactor('#entry', {
    addPosition: 'bottom'
});

lang #

Type: String

Default: en

By default, Redactor is set to English language, but you can download (or create) and install your own language file. All you need is to set a language file after Redactor.js:

<script src="/js/redactor.js"></script>
<script src="/js/es.js"></script>

And then set the lang option like this:

Redactor('#entry', {
    lang: 'es'
});

scrollTarget #

Type: String, Node

Default: window

If the editor is in the parent layer, which has its own scrolling, regardless of the page scrolling, then you need to specify the ID of this layer in this setting.

Redactor('#entry', {
    scrollTarget: '#my-scroll-layer'
});

scrollOverflow #

Type: Boolean

Default: false

Sticky toolbar is made based on the position: sticky property. If the editor is run inside an element with the specified overflow property, the sticky toolbar will not work. So you can enable this setting to keep the toolbar sticky, but using position: fixed.

Redactor('#entry', {
    scrollOverflow: true
});

dir #

Type: String

Default: ltr

Redactor supports both right-to-left and left-to-right text directions. By default, the editor is set to work with left-to-right, to set it to right-to-left, use direction setting:

Redactor('#entry', {
    dir: 'rtl'
});

spellcheck #

Type: Boolean

Default: true

This setting allows to turn off a browser spell checking for Redactor.

Redactor('#entry', {
    spellcheck: false
});

grammarly #

Type: Boolean

Default: false

This option allows to turn on Grammarly spell check for Redactor.

Redactor('#entry', {
    grammarly: true
});

notranslate #

Type: Boolean

Default: false

This option allows to disable Google Translate to translate content of Redactor.

Redactor('#entry', {
    notranslate: true
});

minHeight #

Type: String

Default: 100px

This setting allows to set minimum height for the editor.

Redactor('#entry', {
    minHeight: '300px'
});

maxHeight #

Type: Boolean, String

Default: false

This setting allows to set maximum height for Redactor.

Redactor('#entry', {
    maxHeight: '800px'
});

enterKey #

Type: Boolean

Default: true

This setting disables pressing enter key.

Redactor('#entry', {
    enterKey: false
});

reloadmarker #

Type: Boolean

Default: true

This setting disables adding a timestamp to all Ajax requests to the editor. It is used to prevent the requested file from being cached by the browser.

Redactor('#entry', {
    reloadmarker: false
});

https #

Type: Boolean

Default: false

This setting is set to all links https protocol created by pasting content.

Redactor('#entry', {
    https: true
});

nocontainer #

Type: Boolean

Default: false

This setting disables the creation of a container around the area being edited at startup.

Redactor('#entry', {
    nocontainer: true
});

nostyle #

Type: Boolean

Default: false

This setting disables the adding of editor styles. Therefore, content styles will be inherited from the page.

Redactor('#entry', {
    nostyle: true
});