If there is one thing every content writer could probably do without, it is the feeling of getting lost in a long document. Trying to navigate a book chapter or a legal document? We have all been there and we know this can be such a headache. There is good news, though: we came up with something to make your editing experience a little bit easier. What if the same content navigation tool that programmers have been using and enjoying for years was available in CKEditor 5? We decided to give it a try and this is how the first content minimap for a WYSIWYG text editor was born.

The totally revamped image feature, supporting block and inline images, will bring more colors and fun into your rich content. The ability to edit the HTML source will give you more control over it hand in hand with the highly anticipated search and replace functionality. The General HTML Support will help advanced users expand the capabilities of the editor while a set of new user guides will aid them on the journey through all the newly introduced enhancements. There is also support for multi-root editors in revision history as well as new user permissions for collaboration features — CKEditor 5 v29.0.0 has it all!

Remote work is here to stay, and CEOs need to learn how to reckon with the new reality of employment. Collaboration is one of the keys to creating a digital employee experience, but a real-time collaborative editor like CKEditor 5 can help fulfill multiple aspects of that experience. If you’re looking to level-up your digital workspace, read on for more!

Feedback culture is a true revelation for all those who hadn’t become acquainted with it before. But at CKSource, we are used to it and have mastered it for many years, being well aware that it’s something that results in a smoother workflow, increased productivity and, first and foremost, happier employees. Thanks to it, they may enjoy the company culture where they are heard and appreciated, and their efforts are recognized.<br><br> With this blog post, we’re starting a cycle on the reasons why it is so good and so beneficial to launch your career with CKSorce or switch to this company from your current endeavor.

How does CKEditor 5’s Track Changes feature stand up to Microsoft Word? Read on to find out. We compare and analyze the differences between the two rich text editors and how they handle this task. Being able to apply changes, see who made them and revert the changes back is what this feature is all about.

CKEditor 5 v28.0.0 brings the long-awaited Revision History feature. It is a top-class document versioning tool that allows the users for full control over the editing process. The table feature was expanded with support for captions as well as default table and table cell styles. The integrators and plugin creators will appreciate the new metadata for npm packages and the documentation of the HTML output of the editor features. Improvements were done to the export features and schema definition. Some bug fixes were included, too.

Having the right tools for the job influences your software’s output. The developers of CKEditor 5 know that, which is why our API provides optimal customizability that can help you create the perfect plugin for your software’s needs. We explain how the development teams from three clients of ours — Plutio, Condé Nast, and Neos — used our API to customize CKEditor 5 instances in specific ways with satisfying results. Read on to see what we mean.

Revision History is a brand new feature rolling out as a premium plugin for CKEditor 5. We will show you how you can benefit from implementing this plugin as we analyze various use cases across a variety of industries.

Your site cannot be accessible if it is not available. And if it is available, it will not be usable to the users unless it is accessible. These two terms are strictly interconnected — read on how you can employ Progressive Enhancement in order to make your websites both available and accessible.

The world of business is changing lightning fast, so you need to tread carefully. There are many examples of companies that stood still among the hasty race and eventually failed, like Nokia or Yahoo!, and of those who strived to take the innovative challenge and ultimately won. Embracing innovations to the fullest is what real-time collaboration and CKEditor 5 enable and enhance. There are hundreds of successful, progressive companies that were able to find out that collaboration is what encourages businesses to innovate more and do it better.

How using a rich-text editor with real-time collaboration can bring people together across geographical barriers and make remote work more efficient. This is especially relevant during the current pandemic period forcing many people to work remotely and since companies are becoming more globalized than ever before.

The newest release arrived, packed with new features, some improvements, fixes and a security patch. The long-awaited drag and drop functionality is here, covering textual content, widgets as well as HTML and plain text dropping from outside the editor. Language features have been expanded with the ability to set specific language to a selected part of the text and there were improvements to the text-align feature as well as the to-do list feature. And there is still more!

There are certain features in editors or word processors that people tend to overlook, even though many of them use these on a daily basis. One such feature is the word and character count. An everyday user may not pay much attention to it, as it was originally aimed primarily at people who need to meet specific word limits while writing. Read the blog post to discover its usefulness in your favorite WYSIWYG editor.

Document collaboration tools address disconnections between people and subsequent disruptions in workflow, which happen in industries such as law, market analysis, and market research. Companies around the world are creating software solutions for these issues, and they look to CKEditor 5 to provide for optimal collaborative editing experiences.

We would like to announce that CKFinder 3.5.1.2 for PHP has just been released. This is a maintenance release that adds support for PHP 8 and updates multiple third-party libraries. We have also added support for Laravel 8 and Symfony 5 in their official CKFinder integration packages.

Among features offered by CKEditor 5 WYSIWYG editor, some are widely used (like text formatting or images) and some are rather specialized (like restricted editing or read-only mode). There are only a few features, however, that are so versatile and applicable to so many use cases and solutions as lists.

Welcome to the “Feature of the month” blog post. Kickstarting this new series in 2021, we want to spotlight and present selected features we offer with CKEditor 5. Every month, we will present the functions that we find especially interesting or in need of better recognition from our users. This is all in the hope to bring a better editing experience to you.

The content in the CKEditor 5 is represented by a custom data model. It provides a layer of abstraction over the HTML data that is used to store the content (the data view). To translate the model representation to the target data format (in most cases HTML), the developer must provide a set of converters. This article showcases another approach to writing model-to-view converters and introduces a JSX-compatible syntax that allows to write converters by defining the expected output with syntax that is similar to the HTML data format.

Working hard on creating content? Fair enough. We will make your work comfortable, with easy access to all the features you need. Welcome to our newest batch of UI enhancements: the multiline (wrapping) toolbar that you all asked for and the accessible input labels on interface items! Not convenient enough? Upload images by pasting their URL, track changes for pasting table styles, integrate with Vue.js 3, use Markdown shortcodes… Simply put - write well, edit well, stay well.

CKEditor is an open source rich-text editor. Even though it is mostly developed by CKSource, it has a large community of contributors backing the development efforts. One of the popular questions that we receive time and time again is the availability of Markdown editing. The simple answer is yes. Let’s dive a little deeper into this topic to get a more elaborate answer as to how.

New, advanced features are coming onboard. Embedding arbitrary HTML opens new possibilities for webmasters, while the reconversion introduced in CKEditor v23.1.0 is a great step toward easier, more reliable handling of the downcast conversion process. Pasting tables into tables in track changes mode, documentation updates and a new release of the React component will also, hopefully, please the CKEditor community.

Google believes in a Web that can compete with native applications unintimidated. One of the areas in which native applications for years have been superior to web applications was detecting shapes in images. Tasks such as face recognition were not possible until recently… But not anymore!

Improved plain text pasting coupled with a new pagination feature that lets you control the structure of your output and autolink added to editor builds bring forth an overall excellent experience in WYSIWYG editing. This release also brings enhancements to list styles and image upload. What you edit has never looked so good and so very much exactly the way you want it. Meet CKEditor 5 v23.0.0!

The CKEditor export to PDF and export to Word features are now out of beta. Harness the power of the world’s most popular document file types with these integrated solutions — WYSIWYG editor plugins and a SaaS or on-premises converter service with a REST API. Print, send and store your HTML content any way you want with a single click. Try it now!