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Quill

Quill WYSIWYG editor

Quill is a lightweight WYSIWYG editing library that will provides an attractive input where end users and easily edit complex information in a style familiar to all word processor users.

Quill is different from the majority of other WYSIWYG libraries in that it does not use iframes. This makes it more approachable for extension developers and easier to style.

It also has support for multiple modules such as toolbars, authorship highlighting and multiple cursors. The toolbar module is used by default by this Editor plug-in (see options below). Please see the Quill documentation for more information.

Use

This plug-in can be obtained and used in multiple different ways.

Browser

This plug-in is available on the DataTables CDN:

JS

The plug-in will then automatically register itself against a global DataTables instance. This file can also be used if you are using an AMD loader such as Require.js.

Note that if you are using multiple plug-ins, it can be beneficial in terms of performance to combine the plug-ins into a single file and host it on your own server, rather than making multiple requests to the DataTables CDN.

NPM

The plug-ins are all available on NPM (which can also be used with Yarn or any other Javascript package manager) as part of the datatables.net-plugins package. To use this plug-in, first install the plug-ins package:

npm install datatables.net-plugins

Then import datatables.net, any other DataTables extensions you need, plus the plug-in:

import DataTable from 'datatables.net';
import 'datatables.net-plugins/editorFields/editor.quill.mjs';

Example

new DataTable.Editor( {
 "ajax": "/api/documents",
 "table": "#documents",
 "fields": [ {
     "label": "Description:",
     "name": "description",
     "type": "quill"
   },
   // additional fields...
 ]
} );

Version control

If you have any ideas for how this plug-in can be improved, or spot anything that is in error, it is available on GitHub and pull requests are very welcome!