Setting up the Editors HTML

Setting up the Editor's HTML is done by creating a textarea control on the page.

Setting up the Editors Javascript

Once the textarea is on the page, then initialize the Editor like this:

Changing the buttons

Note: This example also includes ContainerCore so that we can use the color buttons.

To use the basic buttons we don't need to load the Menu and Button controls.

Now we need to tell the Editor to use the basic buttons instead, by setting the _defaultToolbar.buttonType variable to basic

Configuration for This Example

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