Cftextarea - Rich text editor in Lucee?

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I need a rich text editor to add to my form, but it looks like cftextarea did not make it over to Lucee.

I don’t see any extensions either :frowning:

Does anybody have any suggestions? Preferably something simple to integrate, this is for a POC I’m working on so I don’t need anything for production, just basic bold, italic and underline will do the trick.

Thanks

Tech stack:
Windows Server 2022
Lucee 6.2.0.321
21.0.5 (Eclipse Adoptium) 64bit
Apache Tomcat/9.0.98

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As that’s client side, use a JavaScript library

Are you using any other js framework currently?

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I have used ckeditor for years and it works well:

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I would suggest https://hugerte.org/

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Thanks for the input. @martin I actually came across CKEditor (okay, well I admit it ChatGPT recommended it : )

It took me a little while to figure out how to download the right version and get it working, but eventually I have a working test page based on their demo, their JS references in the demo were a bit all over so tweaked everything into the JS folder and all is well

For anybody else thinking of using this, you use their builder to set up the features you want, for me it was the classic editor, select what you don’t want, I removed all premium features and then download the self hosting ZIP

Here is the link to the builder
https://ckeditor.com/ckeditor-5/builder/

Next step get it integrated into my POC form and get the data into the database, I’m hoping all the control characters just find their way in there, and when I display it back again it all looks okay, a bit of an unknown right now.

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make sure you’re using protection to avoid XSS attacks

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Valid point, I’ve actually used EncodeForHTML previously so will update to use that for anything I process and display. This is just for a POC that I am currently working on to present to others and only I will be able to use it, locally from my laptop or in a secured area of the web server, either way, it’s me only, however it does need to be thought about when an MVP is developed and others get their hands on it.

Thanks.

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I’ve used CKEditor for years, but for future use I’m considering Quill.

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