Custom sidebar
TinyMCE allows developers to create sidebars and add custom UI widgets inside a constrained and easily accessible area of the editor. The sidebar is designed to allow administrators and plugin developers to provide additional tools that can be accessed by TinyMCE users.
Editor sidebar API
The sidebar API allows developers to add sidebars on editor instances in a similar way as adding buttons or menu items. Developers can either add sidebars directly in the tinymce.init
using the setup callback or inside your plugin.
This is the syntax for the addSidebar function: editor.ui.registry.addSidebar(name:String, spec:Object)
Specification object
tooltip
The tooltip
specifies a tooltip to be displayed when hovering over the sidebar toggle button.
Type: String
icon
The icon
specifies an icon for the sidebar toggle button. The icon should be the name of an icon provided by the TinyMCE skin.
Type: String
onSetup
The onSetup
specifies a function to be called when the panel is first created. It passes in an API object and should return a callback that takes an API. The default is (api) => (api) => {}
.
onSetup
is a complex property. It requires a function that takes the sidebar’s API and should return a callback that takes the sidebar’s API and returns nothing. This occurs because onSetup
runs whenever the sidebar is rendered, and the returned callback is executed when the sidebar is destroyed. Therefore the returned function is essentially an onTeardown
handler, and can be used to unbind events and callbacks.
Type: function
onShow
The onShow
specifies a function to be called when the panel displayed. It passes in an API object.
Type: function
onHide
The onHide
specifies a function to be called when the panel is hidden. It passes in an API object.
Type: function
API Object
element():HTMLElement
The element():HTMLElement
function returns the root element of the sidebar panel.
Example inside the tinymce.init
tinymce.init({
...
setup: function (editor) {
editor.ui.registry.addSidebar('mysidebar', {
tooltip: 'My sidebar',
icon: 'settings',
onSetup: function (api) {
console.log('Render panel', api.element());
},
onShow: function (api) {
console.log('Show panel', api.element());
api.element().innerHTML = 'Hello world!';
},
onHide: function (api) {
console.log('Hide panel', api.element());
}
});
}
});
Example inside a TinyMCE plugin
tinymce.PluginManager.add('myplugin', function (editor) {
editor.ui.registry.addSidebar('mysidebar', {
tooltip: 'My sidebar',
icon: 'settings',
onSetup: function (api) {
console.log('Render panel', api.element());
},
onShow: function (api) {
console.log('Show panel', api.element());
api.element().innerHTML = 'Hello world!';
},
onHide: function (api) {
console.log('Hide panel', api.element());
}
});
});