Change log

4.3.0

March 9, 2025

Added: Dynamic loading of links for the DefinedLinks plugin.
Added: New Accordion plugin.
Added: Typographer plugin for automatic text formatting.
Added: Code Highlighter plugin for syntax highlighting in <pre> tags.
Added: Table of Contents plugin for automatic heading navigation.
Added: Anchor plugin for creating direct links to specific sections.
Added: Collapse plugin for showing and hiding content under headings.
Added: New API and events for the Link feature.
Added: New API and events for the Image feature.
Added: New API and events for the Embed feature.
Added: API — Forced sync.invoke command for synchronization.
Added: Status bar — Option to display items on the right side.
Added: Sticky status bar — New setting (statusbar.sticky) to keep it fixed at the bottom.
Added: Autosave feature — Regular content saving with status updates in the status bar (autosave.interval setting).
Added: Setting for self-closing XML tags.
Added: List recognition — Detects list items starting with a dash (-) upon pasting.
Added: Enter key behavior setting (enterKey = br) — Pressing Enter inserts a <br> instead of creating a new paragraph.
Added: API — Ability to make specific blocks editable/non-editable.
Added: To-do blocks — Option to assign a special class to completed tasks for custom CSS styling (e.g., strikethrough).
Added: Structure mode — New setting (structure) for document organization.
Added: Image resizing — Allows height adjustment while maintaining aspect ratio. See example.
Added: Image replacement — Enables selecting from uploaded images when editing an image.
Fixed: Mention plugin — Links were not being removed properly, affecting regular links as well.
Fixed: Mention plugin — Issue where deleting a link before @ and inserting a new mention resulted in incorrect behavior.
Fixed: Source code mode — The <textarea> now automatically resizes while typing.
Fixed: Lists — Styling issues with nested numbered lists.

4.2.5

February 14, 2025

Improved: Image insertion in base64 see the new option upload-base64.
Fixed: Bug with link deletion when removing link text sequentially using backspace or delete; if the link content becomes empty, the link tag remains.
Fixed: Incorrect icon list display in the icons plugin.
Fixed: Figure tag without attributes is not removed for embedded content.
Fixed: Navigation through layout columns using the tab key does not work properly.
Fixed: Counter plugin throws an error when used with click-to-edit.
Fixed: Email plugin - margin issue with img elements.
Fixed: Math plugin incorrectly parses values when the editor is launched in click-to-edit mode.
Fixed: Issue with an undeletable block; formatting and image insertion should not occur.
Fixed: Empty links remain in the mention plugin when deleting an inserted link using backspace.
Fixed: Cursor issue with multiple editors.
Fixed: Incorrect behavior when deleting inserted icons through the Icons plugin.

4.2.4

January 12, 2025

Fixed: An error when duplicating blocks.
Fixed: Rendered emails in the Email plugin would fail in certain cases.
Fixed: Iframe height calculation when the editor is inside a hidden layer.
Fixed: AI-generated images not being parsed into figure tags by default.
Fixed: Clicking an item in the path bar while the editor is running inside an iframe failed to select the block and instead jumped back to the body.
Fixed: Incorrect rendering of email code when using layouts.
Fixed: In the AI plugin, prompt with the parameter empty = true was not sent.
Fixed: The merge tag context menu not displaying.
Improved: Initial textareas are now visually hidden instead of fully hidden to ensure the required option works properly. Important - Update the editor CSS (redactor.css or redactor.min.css) to apply this change.
Improved: Added the ability to disable or enable context menus for specific tags or blocks.
Improved: Introduced the paragraphizeLines setting to enable pasting plain text with automatic paragraph splitting.
Improved: Tab navigation between table cells is now supported.
Improved: Full compatibility for the Email plugin inside an iframe. Important - Update the Email plugin as well.

4.2.3

December 12, 2024

Fixed: The app.stop event does not trigger when using Click to Edit.
Fixed: Errors occur when pressing Backspace in an empty line or before a br tag under certain conditions.
Fixed: The plugin in the "Developing a plugin with dropdown" example does not work.
Fixed: Custom JavaScript scripts were not loading in iframe mode.
Fixed: Shift + Tab likely does not work properly in lists.
Fixed: Potential issues with table management functionality.
Fixed: Parsing error when setting data json as an empty object.
Fixed: Issue adding a new todo item when the entire todo list is selected.
Fixed: Bug when inserting a new layout if a layout is already selected.
Fixed: Problem with inline formatting when Shift + Enter is pressed after applying a format.
Fixed: Content width issue in the Email Plugin when applying a template.
Fixed: Problem specifying colors in the input field of the Color Picker.
Fixed: Incorrect insertion of blocks (e.g., text, lines, etc.) when the cursor is inside an editable block.
Fixed: Cursor does not move to the end of replaced content in the Mention Plugin when the replacement is not a link (e.g., a span).
Fixed: An empty link remains in the Mention Plugin when replacing and sequentially deleting content with Backspace (also affects any link in the content).
Fixed: The Mention Plugin inserts nested links in some cases.

4.2.2

November 19, 2024

Added: Support for readonly mode without disabling the toolbar by passing an object instead of true.
Improved: When control is invoked inside a cell, a 'Table' option is now available for adding rows or columns, improving clarity.
Fixed: editor.getJson method not working.
Fixed: Error when running the minified editor with NextJS.
Fixed: 'set' option failing to overwrite objects in settings (e.g., setting Layouts object).
Fixed: Click to edit not unbinding events properly.
Fixed: Focus not set in an empty paragraph when using the block.add event to insert one after adding a block.
Fixed: Issue with deleting a cell entirely within a nested table.
Fixed: Email plugin — undo issues affecting styles.
Fixed: Font color reset when switching back from the Background tab.
Fixed: Problem exiting a nested list when the cursor is in the last list item.
Fixed: Deletion issues in lists when the cursor is at the beginning of a list item.

4.2.1

November 4, 2024

Fixed: Replaced lookarounds regex with standard regex in Embed.
Fixed: typo in displayed hotkeys.
Fixed: In the ai.create event, AI did not consistently set the result when modifying the prompt.
Fixed: Made the link field mandatory when inserting a link.
Fixed: theme setup when destroying multiple editors.
Fixed: Fix applied to the destroy method.
Fixed: Addressed issue where pressing delete at the end of a list item with an empty item following it did not remove the empty item.
Fixed: issue with addbar placement when inserting a new line, adding a table with control + add, then pressing cmd + shift + o.
Fixed: AI plugin — changing the prompt with ai.create now correctly reflects in the preview label.
Fixed: Added optional inline styles for alignment and float settings on images with wrapWithStyle configuration.
Fixed: Resolved inline formatting issues when selecting an entire paragraph.
Fixed: In iframe mode, the frame now supports dark mode via the themeAttr setting.
Fixed: Added the ability to change the image link through the Link option.

4.2.0

October 10, 2024

Fixed: Incorrect translation of the Tone list in the AI Plugin.
Fixed: Repeatedly pressing the list button now converts the list into paragraphs.
Fixed: Parsing of images and links within the AI response.
Fixed: Issue in Breakline mode where text formatted as a heading remained plain text in the output html.
Fixed: Problem in the Mention Plugin where text before the inserted replacement was occasionally deleted.
Fixed: Issue when retrieving content in the Math Plugin.
Fixed: Issue with text input and Enter on iOS for the Korean language.
Fixed: Skipping empty paragraphs when using arrow keys in Firefox.

4.1.9

September 23, 2024

Improved: Settings and events for capturing images created by AI tools. See detailed description with examples.
Fixed: an issue where using Backspace to delete text in the second column would result in all content being deleted and the cursor jumping to the first column.
Fixed: an issue where before positition was not functioning correctly in the block.insert method.
Fixed: a bug where deleting an imagefrom the first column in a 2-column layout would cause unexpected behavior.
Fixed: Applied a fix to the getTextFromHtml method to enhance reliability.
Fixed: Counter Plugin Fix - a potential bug if the editor element is not available.
Fixed: AI Plugin - an issue where triple-clicking in the AI prompt textarea caused the field to lose focus.
Fixed: Image resize plugin - an issue where images in the email template would jump in size when being resized.
Fixed: a recurring issue where applying formatting (bold, underline, or italic) to button text would sometimes erroneously add an underline.
Fixed: Email plugin - a bug where the border-radius property was not being saved correctly for buttons in emails.
Fixed: an issue where setting minHeight and maxHeight and typing text to the bottom edge would prevent the scroll from adjusting when pressing Enter.
Fixed: Solution for AZERTY keyboard layouts.

4.1.8

September 4, 2024

Added: Noneditable parameter when setting and getting content as JSON.
Added: Settings to replace modals for Image and Link.
Fixed: Issue with inserting a table into an empty editor.
Fixed: Issue adding a list within a list.
Fixed: Issue of losing focus when inserting a link.
Fixed: Issue when dropdown “More formatting” loses position after clicking “Undo”.
Fixed: Collapse icon for Fullscreen does not work from the first click.
Fixed: image.getStates method does not work.
Fixed: Issue with deleting content within columns (layouts).
Fixed: Using app.editor.insertContent does not work to insert the br tag.
Fixed: Issue of replacing ‘&’ with ‘amp’ entity when inserting and editing embed code.
Fixed: Set the default image width to 100% in the Email plugin if the image does not have this attribute.

4.1.7

August 8, 2024

4.1.6

July 31, 2024

Fixed: If you want to add an image in an empty text block and upload multiple images, only one image will be added.
Fixed: The shortcut ctrl+k/cmd+k does not open the dialogue for a new link (i.e. nothing occurs on hitting cmd+k)
Fixed: Issue with displaying spinner when AI prompt is empty.
Fixed: if you move 'html' button from toolbar to extrabar it will work and switch you into html mode but will not toggle back like it does in toolbar you end up stuck in html mode.
Fixed: The issue of resizing an image if it was float left/right and then make it ‘center’ or ‘none’.
Fixed: If there is only an image in the editor, you cannot add text or a list or any other content after the image using the Add button.
Fixed: Issue when navigating to the editor after pressing tab, Redactor has no focus for inserting an image or content.
Added: Tabindex setting.
Added: keepNameAttr and keepIdAttr on pasting.

4.1.5

July 15, 2024

Added: Limiter plugin that limits the number of characters entered.
Added: Non-deletable blocks.
Added: AI plugin - add the ability to make empty queries.
Added: Documentation Email plugin - how to set custom CSS and make responsive emails.
Added: Documentation - how to disable wrap and outset for images.
Improved: Insert emoji especially when the selection is not collapsed.
Improved: Do not turn off toolbar sticky if you switch to source mode
Improved: Ability to paste a list from plain text as separate lines separated by br tags.
Improved: Character count in Counter plugin.
Fixed: Context bar issue - Once a link is added to a content, it stays forever in a context toolbar.
Fixed: In some cases dropdowns and modals are incorrectly positioned.
Fixed: If you select all text with CMD+A and then use one of the arrow keys, all of the text disappears.
Fixed: Email plugin - command + Z breaks the height. Deleting any lines after this continues to shrink the height of the editor.
Fixed: Email plugin - setContent resets spacing configuration to 32px (and possibly other settings). Please use reset = false param. See documentation.
Fixed: Print plugin keeps a copy of the content.
Fixed: If you add a default class for P, change the element to H, but it still has the class from P.
Fixed: If the editor is in iframe mode, then Counter plugin does not work.
Fixed: Resizing images does not work on mobile. It shows NaNpx, and I can't drag the images.
Fixed: In iframe mode, if you delete all content, an error appears in the console and Redactor stops working.
Fixed: Modal for color selection on mobile, has wrong position.
Fixed: There is no way to disable/enable a specific button or toolbar buttons in the API.

4.1.4

June 19, 2024

Added: Readonly mode and setting.
Added: AI plugin - Add for AI request the ability to send additional data as it is done in Image.
Improved: Issue - there can be only one external toolbar on the screen. Now you can make it so that every instance editor has an external toolbar. To make all toolbars in a single target use the sharedTarget setting.
Improved: Removed delete video by spacebar so that it can be played.
Improved: Position of buttons in the toolbar when setting custom button layout.
Improved: Formatting and parsing in Breakline mode.
Improved: If a table cell is selected, make that when typing letters, they are typed inside the cell.
Fixed: todo template is not parsed correctly on save.
Fixed: Checkbox element of todo lists - ticking a box does not work in Firefox.
Fixed: replaceTags - doesn't replace b or i with strong or em, using the Italic/Bold always uses their default setting.
Fixed: The issue of replacing ampersand with html entities when retrieving content.
Fixed: Sometimes when dragging and dropping a block in Email mode, the editor freezes.
Fixed: When you switch to code mode and back, the empty div gets a space in the content.
Fixed: If you select the text and color it using the Fontcolor input, the selection is lost and you can't put the color in
Fixed: AI plugin - if you make a request with stream = false the content is simply deleted.
Fixed: AI plugin - if you generate text, paste it, then when you click on the AI button in the toolbar, it will not be a dropdown, but an AI tool will be inserted.

4.1.3

May 26, 2024

Fixed: Form elements parsing error if attributes contain '&' character.
Fixed: When duplicating a block with mergetag, an undefined instance appears as a result.
Fixed: Many fixes to inline formatting.
Fixed: Duplicate items in control dropdown.
Fixed: Plugin styles are not saved in breakline mode.
Fixed: Error when duplicating a list.
Fixed: Email plugin - even if dark theme is set to false dark mode is still generated in the email html.
Fixed: When inserting setJson content, then clicking between blocks puts focus in the block, but no block selection occurs.
Fixed: If you select a cell and press the spacebar, the cell is deleted.
Fixed: Addbar hide setting does not work.
Fixed: The issue with the Fontcolor plugin when you select the text color, many different span tags are created with different set of colors.
Fixed: The control dropdown doesn't work on mobile.
Improved: Ability to wrap todo in a label on output or using a template. See docs.
Improved: Todo - support unchecked template '[]' - without space.
Improved: Ability to insert multiple files via filelink.
Improved: Inserting a file as a link, including by dragging and dropping if the filelink plugin is connected.
Improved: Ai Plugin - markdown headings and lists with bold and paragraphs are not parsed.
Improved: AI plugin - remember if a column has been called and put the answer there.
Improved: Ability to implement custom tag insertion. See example.

4.1.2

May 7, 2024

Improved: minor code refactoring.
Improved: various small improvements when working with tables and lists.
Improved: selecting Column block in Pathbar.
Improved: work of enter if cursor is in an inline tag.
Improved: improved content parsing when content was pasted in source code mode.
Improved: AI plugin improvement if form prompt inserts inside div wrapper.
Improved: Embed - ability to play video.
Improved: Embed - recognize mp4 video when inserting in embed form.
Improved: Pasting from Google Docs.
Fixed: Email plugin - image alignment.
Fixed: Parsing does not work correctly if there are line breaks in tag attributes in html set in the editor.
Fixed: Selecting font family or font size does not hide dropdown.
Fixed: Simultaneous application of font color, size, and family.
Fixed: If you select text and end the selection so that the cursor falls on the control icon, the selection is deselected and editor.blur occurs.
Fixed: If you create a todo item and press backspace, an error occurs.

4.1.1

April 24, 2024

Added: Command palette - type slash (/) to open commands without leaving keyboard.
Added: ai.before.insert - event that occurs before the result is inserted into the content.
Added: Description of how to make styles using classes for fontcolor, fontfamily, fontsize plugins. See the corresponding plugins.
Added: Revolvapp template converter to html for Redactor.
Improved: Instant set text or background color in any plugin when hovering over a color in colorpicker.
Improved: AI plugin - parsing bold / italic markdown inside the returned response.
Improved: Embed can always put https in the url for youtube and vimeo.
Fixed: AI plugin - issues with adjusting the height of the editor in iframe mode.
Fixed: Many improvements in list formatting and navigation within a list using the keyboard
Fixed: In Chrome for Windows, it was not working correctly to select the wrapper and layout blocks when you clicked on the control's button.
Fixed: If you set a block with attributes in JSON, delete it, then do undo and do getJson, there will be no attributes in the resulting json
Fixed: Email plugin - After editing existing template data, if the template is changed from the template selection menu and the user performs an undo action, the old template's color theme will be restored to the data.
Fixed: Edit link modal is not properly aligned with editor.
Fixed: Sometimes when selected text is formatted (Underline, Bold, Italic ). Entire paragraph gets underlined.

4.1.0

March 25, 2024

Added: Possibility to work inside iframe see examples and setting.
Added: Examples of how the editor works with different frontend frameworks.
Added: Ability to read and create layouts exclusively by classes, see detailed description and layout setting.
Added: Detailed description of How to noneditable works.
Added: Example of Get a block after pressing enter key.
Added: scrollOverflow setting that makes toolbar sticky programmatically to work if parent elements have overflow property.
Added: JSON content setting - ability for an image to specify width and height in the style attribute.
Added: AI Plugin - added a lot of events, including error event, which allows you to realize the possibility of receiving a message from the server that the limits are over, i.e. actually give a response from the server and enable the event, with JSON response.
Fixed: AI plugin - if content is not selected and click item in dropdown then spinner appears, although there is no request.
Fixed: AI Plugin - catch pressing enter to send request + shift+enter as line break.
Fixed: AI Plugin - if you make prompt inside todoitem or listitem, the logic is wrong, the returned text should become just todoitem or listitem.
Added: Email plugin - ability to get and set with getJson / setJson API methods.
Added: Email plugin - ability to set preset templates using Templates plugin. Please see the example.
Fixed: Email plugin - fails to read text and all other parameters when setting content via setContent.
Fixed: Email plugin - background color of body is not reset when setting template via setContent.
Fixed: If you paste plain text, it is not split into paragraphs
Improved: Emoji plugin implementation of keyboard work when panel is shown when entering colon (:).
Improved: Emoji plugin ability to translate default group names.
Improved: Many improvements in Fullscreen plugin.
Improved: Many improvements in Mention plugin.
Fixed: Sticky toolbar should not work if the editor is disabled.

4.0.6

March 15, 2024

Fixed: Global Redactor.settings override local settings
Fixed: AI Tools — If you select all and make a prompt in stream mode from dropdown then no spinner loading appears in the content
Fixed: Email plugin— text size for the block is not read by default from the email settings
Fixed: Email plugin - if there was no email-option with styles in the template by default, getContent will not return the changes
Fixed: Email plugin - modal position does not take into account the margin/padding of the editor
Fixed: Email plugin - email-options are not read when setting content via setContent
Improved: Many improvements in modals, dropdowns and context bar.
Improved: Many improvements in Imageresize plugin
Improved: Many improvements if maxHeight setting is enabled in editor.
Improved: Many improvements when working with table
Improved: Many improvements in Mention plugin
Added: Snippets plugin
Added: Templates plugin
Added: Example how to add undo/redo on the extrabar
Added: Example of working with Grammarly
Added: AI Tools —ability to recognize code return and code insertion

4.0.5

March 5, 2024

Fixed: Email plugin. Issue with spacing loss on undo/redo.
Fixed: Now Filelink plugin icon is available when clicking on any block.
Added: Output setting to synchronize content with any external element on the page.
Added: Setting to show context bar on click.
Added: Many new settings for Colorpicker. It is used in all plugins that add text or background color.
Added: Setting to disable visible outline when focusing in a block - block.outline setting.
Improved: A lot of improvements in dropdown and modals display.

4.0.4

March 3, 2024

Fixed: AI Plugin. Issue where multiple promt textareas could be in the content at the same time.
Fixed: Email Plugin. Issue with changing the link for a button.
Fixed: Email Plugin. Issue with changing the caption for a button.
Fixed: Email Plugin. Issue with changing the background of a wrapper if there is a button in it.
Fixed: Email Plugin. Issue with text formatting.
Fixed: Email Plugin. If you change the body and content settings via Style Panel, the changes were not reflected in the output code.
Fixed: Email Plugin. Alignment plugin does not work correctly.
Fixed: Email Plugin. Option to add/remove columns and rows of the table.
Fixed: If there is an image on the left side of the column, clicking on the right column does not cause the focus to be set to an empty paragraph.
Fixed: The undo and redo buttons are missing commands.
Fixed: The image upload popup does not work when url parameter is false.
Fixed: An error occurs when deleting the first column in the table.
Fixed: Issue with stickyOffsetTop setting when using Fullscreen plugin.
Fixed: Some small fixes in documentation and code.
Improved: AI and Email plugin translation.
Improved: Display the active item in Font Family and Font Size plugins if the cursor is in an inline tag with a style.
Added: Event ai.before.send for AI plugin.

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