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https://github.com/inokawa/rich-textarea

A small customizable textarea for React to colorize, highlight, decorate texts, offer autocomplete and much more.
https://github.com/inokawa/rich-textarea

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A small customizable textarea for React to colorize, highlight, decorate texts, offer autocomplete and much more.

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# rich-textarea



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A small customizable textarea for [React](https://github.com/facebook/react) to colorize, highlight, decorate texts, offer autocomplete and much more.












## Demo



https://inokawa.github.io/rich-textarea/



## Features



- **Styleable texts:** Not just highlighting texts like similar libraries, this library also supports colorizing, decorating and more. Regex or any tokenizers can be used.

- **Easy to interact with events:** You can get caret position and can catch some mouse events on texts, which are useful to display something reflects user actions.

- **Compatible with textarea:** Except added features, this library is designed to behave as native [textarea](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/textarea) as much as possible. If not worked properly, please report it in an [issue](https://github.com/inokawa/rich-textarea/issues) or [PR](https://github.com/inokawa/rich-textarea/pulls).

- **Out of the box integration:** Works as both [controlled](https://react.dev/reference/react-dom/components/textarea#controlling-a-text-area-with-a-state-variable) and [uncontrolled](https://react.dev/reference/react-dom/components/textarea#providing-an-initial-value-for-a-text-area). Supports [formik](https://github.com/jaredpalmer/formik), [react-hook-form](https://github.com/react-hook-form/react-hook-form), [@tanstack/react-form](https://github.com/TanStack/form) and more. Supports SSR. Supports form with [Server Actions](https://nextjs.org/docs/app/api-reference/functions/server-actions) in [Next.js](https://github.com/vercel/next.js) and [action in Remix](https://remix.run/docs/en/main/route/action).

- **IME composition handling:** [IME](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Input_method) related events have some cross browser problems. This library handles them for easy to use.

- **Lightweight:** Trying to support many usecases but also keep bundle size small. Currently [~3kB (gzipped)](https://bundlephobia.com/package/rich-textarea).



## Motivation



Sometimes we need customized text editor in web. However creating it with [raw contenteditable is so hard to do properly](https://github.com/grammarly/contenteditable) and editor frameworks are usually too heavy... Maybe you really need is just a textarea with highlighting and some hovered menus, but native textarea and many of textarea libraries are far from it because of the limited customizability. This library is aiming to solve the problem.



## Install



```sh

npm install rich-textarea

```



### Requirements



- react >= 16.14



If you use ESM and webpack 5, use react >= 18 to avoid [Can't resolve `react/jsx-runtime` error](https://github.com/facebook/react/issues/20235).



## Usage



### Controlled



```jsx

import { useState } from "react";

import { RichTextarea } from "rich-textarea";



export const App = () => {

  const [text, setText] = useState("Lorem ipsum");



  return (

     setText(e.target.value)}

    >

      {(v) => {

        return v.split("").map((t, i) => (

          

            {t}

          

        ));

      }}

    

  );

};

```



### Uncontrolled



```jsx

import { RichTextarea } from "rich-textarea";



export const App = () => {

  return (

    

      {(v) => {

        return v.split("").map((t, i) => (

          

            {t}

          

        ));

      }}

    

  );

};

```



### Regex helper



You can use helper for regex if you don't want to create your own render function.



```jsx

import { useState } from "react";

import { RichTextarea, createRegexRenderer } from "rich-textarea";



const renderer = createRegexRenderer([

  [/[A-Z][a-z]+/g, { borderRadius: "3px", backgroundColor: "#d0bfff" }],

]);



export const App = () => {

  const [text, setText] = useState("Lorem ipsum");



  return (

     setText(e.target.value)}

    >

      {renderer}

    

  );

};

```



### Next.js Server Actions



```tsx

// _components/Textarea.tsx

"use client";

import { RichTextarea, RichTextareaProps } from "rich-textarea";



export const Textarea = (

  props: Omit

) => {

  return (

    

      {(v) => {

        return v.split("").map((t, i) => (

          

            {t}

          

        ));

      }}

    

  );

};



// page.tsx in App Router of Next.js

import { Textarea } from "../_components/Textarea";



async function hello(formData: FormData) {

  "use server";

  console.log(formData.get("hello"));

}



export default () => {

  return (

    


      
this is server!


      

        

        submit

      

    


  );

};

```



### Remix action



```tsx

import type { ActionFunction } from "@remix-run/node";

import { Form } from "@remix-run/react";

import { RichTextarea, RichTextareaProps } from "rich-textarea";



const Textarea = (props: Omit) => {

  return (

    

      {(v) => {

        return v.split("").map((t, i) => (

          

            {t}

          

        ));

      }}

    

  );

};



export const action: ActionFunction = async ({ request }) => {

  console.log((await request.formData()).get("hello"));

};



export default () => {

  return (

    

      

      submit

    

  );

};

```



## Documentation



- [API reference](./docs/API.md)

- [Examples](./stories) for more usages



## Contribute



All contributions are welcome.

If you find a problem, feel free to create an [issue](https://github.com/inokawa/rich-textarea/issues) or a [PR](https://github.com/inokawa/rich-textarea/pulls).



### Making a Pull Request



1. Fork this repo.

2. Run `npm install`.

3. Commit your fix.

4. Make a PR and confirm all the CI checks passed.