Django CKEditor 5

CKEditor 5 for Django >= 2.0

Quick start

pip install django-ckeditor-5

1. Add "django_ckeditor_5" to your INSTALLED_APPS in your project/settings.py like this:

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    ...
    'django_ckeditor_5',
]

2. Also, in your project/settings.py add:

STATIC_URL = '/static/'
MEDIA_URL = '/media/'
MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'media')

customColorPalette = [
      {
          'color': 'hsl(4, 90%, 58%)',
          'label': 'Red'
      },
      {
          'color': 'hsl(340, 82%, 52%)',
          'label': 'Pink'
      },
      {
          'color': 'hsl(291, 64%, 42%)',
          'label': 'Purple'
      },
      {
          'color': 'hsl(262, 52%, 47%)',
          'label': 'Deep Purple'
      },
      {
          'color': 'hsl(231, 48%, 48%)',
          'label': 'Indigo'
      },
      {
          'color': 'hsl(207, 90%, 54%)',
          'label': 'Blue'
      },
  ]

CKEDITOR_5_CUSTOM_CSS = 'path_to.css' # optional
CKEDITOR_5_FILE_STORAGE = "path_to_storage.CustomStorage" # optional
CKEDITOR_5_CONFIGS = { 
  'default': {
      'toolbar': ['heading', '|', 'bold', 'italic', 'link',
                  'bulletedList', 'numberedList', 'blockQuote', 'imageUpload', ],

  },
  'extends': {
      'blockToolbar': [
          'paragraph', 'heading1', 'heading2', 'heading3',
          '|',
          'bulletedList', 'numberedList',
          '|',
          'blockQuote',
      ],
      'toolbar': ['heading', '|', 'outdent', 'indent', '|', 'bold', 'italic', 'link', 'underline', 'strikethrough',
      'code','subscript', 'superscript', 'highlight', '|', 'codeBlock', 'sourceEditing', 'insertImage',
                  'bulletedList', 'numberedList', 'todoList', '|',  'blockQuote', 'imageUpload', '|',
                  'fontSize', 'fontFamily', 'fontColor', 'fontBackgroundColor', 'mediaEmbed', 'removeFormat',
                  'insertTable',],
      'image': {
          'toolbar': ['imageTextAlternative', '|', 'imageStyle:alignLeft',
                      'imageStyle:alignRight', 'imageStyle:alignCenter', 'imageStyle:side',  '|'],
          'styles': [
              'full',
              'side',
              'alignLeft',
              'alignRight',
              'alignCenter',
          ]

      },
      'table': {
          'contentToolbar': [ 'tableColumn', 'tableRow', 'mergeTableCells',
          'tableProperties', 'tableCellProperties' ],
          'tableProperties': {
              'borderColors': customColorPalette,
              'backgroundColors': customColorPalette
          },
          'tableCellProperties': {
              'borderColors': customColorPalette,
              'backgroundColors': customColorPalette
          }
      },
      'heading' : {
          'options': [
              { 'model': 'paragraph', 'title': 'Paragraph', 'class': 'ck-heading_paragraph' },
              { 'model': 'heading1', 'view': 'h1', 'title': 'Heading 1', 'class': 'ck-heading_heading1' },
              { 'model': 'heading2', 'view': 'h2', 'title': 'Heading 2', 'class': 'ck-heading_heading2' },
              { 'model': 'heading3', 'view': 'h3', 'title': 'Heading 3', 'class': 'ck-heading_heading3' }
          ]
      }
  },
  'list': {
      'properties': {
          'styles': 'true',
          'startIndex': 'true',
          'reversed': 'true',
      }
  }

}

3. Include the app URLconf in your project/urls.py like this:

from django.conf import settings
from django.conf.urls.static import static

# [ ... ]

urlpatterns += [ 
    path("ckeditor5/", include('django_ckeditor_5.urls')),
] + static(settings.MEDIA_URL, document_root=settings.MEDIA_ROOT)

Alternatively, you can use your own logic for file uploads. To do this, add the following to your settings.py file:

# Define a constant in settings.py to specify the custom upload file view
CK_EDITOR_5_UPLOAD_FILE_VIEW_NAME = "custom_upload_file"

Then, in your urls.py, include the custom upload URL pattern:

path("upload/", custom_upload_function, name="custom_upload_file"),

This allows users to customize the upload file logic by specifying their own view function and URL pattern.

4. Add to your `project/models.py`:

from django.db import models
from django_ckeditor_5.fields import CKEditor5Field


class Article(models.Model):
    title=models.CharField('Title', max_length=200)
    text=CKEditor5Field('Text', config_name='extends')

Includes the following ckeditor5 plugins:

Essentials, UploadAdapter, CodeBlock, Autoformat, Bold, Italic, Underline, Strikethrough, Code, Subscript, Superscript, BlockQuote, Heading, Image, ImageCaption, ImageStyle, ImageToolbar, ImageResize, Link, List, Paragraph, Alignment, Font, PasteFromOffice, SimpleUploadAdapter, MediaEmbed, RemoveFormat, Table, TableToolbar, TableCaption, TableProperties, TableCellProperties, Indent, IndentBlock, Highlight, TodoList, ListProperties, SourceEditing, GeneralHtmlSupport, ImageInsert, WordCount, Mention, Style, HorizontalLine, LinkImage, HtmlEmbed, FullPage, SpecialCharacters, ShowBlocks, SelectAll, FindAndReplace

Examples

Example of using a widget in a form:

from django import forms

from django_ckeditor_5.widgets import CKEditor5Widget
from .models import Comment


class CommentForm(forms.ModelForm):
      """Form for comments to the article."""

      def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
          super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
          self.fields["text"].required = False

      class Meta:
          model = Comment
          fields = ("author", "text")
          widgets = {
              "text": CKEditor5Widget(
                  attrs={"class": "django_ckeditor_5"}, config_name="comment"
              )
          }

Example of using a widget in a template:

{% extends 'base.html' %}
{% block header %}
    {{ form.media }} # Required for styling/js to make ckeditor5 work
{% endblock %}
{% block content %}
    <form method="POST">
        {% csrf_token %}
        {{ form.as_p }}
        <input type="submit" value="Submit article">
    </form>
{% endblock %}

Custom storage example:

import os
from urllib.parse import urljoin

from django.conf import settings
from django.core.files.storage import FileSystemStorage


class CustomStorage(FileSystemStorage):
    """Custom storage for django_ckeditor_5 images."""

    location = os.path.join(settings.MEDIA_ROOT, "django_ckeditor_5")
    base_url = urljoin(settings.MEDIA_URL, "django_ckeditor_5/")

Changing the language:

You can change the language via the language key in the config

CKEDITOR_5_CONFIGS = {
  'default': {
      'toolbar': ['heading', '|', 'bold', 'italic', 'link',
                  'bulletedList', 'numberedList', 'blockQuote', 'imageUpload', ],
      'language': 'de',
  },

language can be either:

1. a string containing a single language
2. a list of languages
3. a dict {"ui": <a string (1) or a list of languages (2)>}

If you want the language to change with the user language in django you can add CKEDITOR_5_USER_LANGUAGE=True to your django settings. Additionally you will have to list all available languages in the ckeditor config as shown above.

Creating a CKEditor5 instance from javascript:

To create a ckeditor5 instance dynamically from javascript you can use the ClassicEditor class exposed through the window global variable.

const config = {};
window.ClassicEditor
   .create( document.querySelector( '#editor' ), config )
   .catch( error => {
       console.error( error );
   } );
}

Alternatively, you can create a form with the following structure:

<form method="POST">
    <div class="ck-editor-container">
        <textarea id="id_text" name="text" class="django_ckeditor_5" >
        </textarea>
        <div></div> <!-- this div or any empty element is required -->
        <span class="word-count" id="id_text_script-word-count"></span>
   </div>
   <input type="hidden" id="id_text_script-ck-editor-5-upload-url" data-upload-url="/ckeditor5/image_upload/" data-csrf_cookie_name="new_csrf_cookie_name">
   <span id="id_text_script-span"><script id="id_text_script" type="application/json">{your ckeditor config}</script></span>
</form>

The ckeditor will be automatically created once the form has been added to the DOM.

To access a ckeditor instance you can either get them through window.editors

const editor = windows.editors["<id of your field>"];

or by registering a callback

//register callback
window.ckeditorRegisterCallback("<id of your field>", function(editor) {
  // do something with editor
});
// unregister callback
window.ckeditorUnregisterCallback("<id of your field>");

Allow file uploading as link:

By default only images can be uploaded and embedded in the content. To allow uploading and embedding files as downloadable links you can add the following to your config:

CKEDITOR_5_ALLOW_ALL_FILE_TYPES = True
CKEDITOR_5_UPLOAD_FILE_TYPES = ['jpeg', 'pdf', 'png'] # optional
CKEDITOR_5_CONFIGS = {
  'default': {
      'toolbar': ['heading', '|', 'bold', 'italic', 'link',
                  'bulletedList', 'numberedList', 'blockQuote', 'imageUpload', 'fileUpload' ], # include fileUpload here
      'language': 'de',
  },

Warning: Uploaded files are not validated and users could upload malicious content (e.g. a pdf which actually is an executable). Furthermore allowing file uploads disables any validation for the image upload as the backend can't distinguish between image and file upload. Exposing the file upload to all/untrusted users poses a risk!

Installing from GitHub:

cd your_root_project
git clone https://github.com/hvlads/django-ckeditor-5.git
cd django-ckeditor-5
yarn install
yarn run prod
cd your_root_project
python manage.py collectstatic

Example Sharing content styles between front-end and back-end:

To apply ckeditor5 styling outside of the editor, download content.styles.css from the official ckeditor5 docs and include it as a styleshet within your HTML template. You will need to add the ck-content class to the container of your content for the styles to be applied. https://ckeditor.com/docs/ckeditor5/latest/installation/advanced/content-styles.html#sharing-content-styles-between-frontend-and-backend

<link rel="stylesheet" href="path/to/assets/content-styles.css" type="text/css">
...
<div class="ck-content">
<p>ckeditor content</p>
</div>