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Chris Bekas · 2020-11-17T06:00:52.332Z

If you're after a simple WYSIWYG HTML editor to add to your XPages apps, take a look at Quill. Quill is a flexible and powerful open-source HTML editor built for compatibility and extensibility that can easily be integrated in XPages applications as...

Quill is the best, using the Angular version for one of my projects and it's simple, clean looking and just works perfectly.

Thanks Paul - yes indeed - Quill is best for clean, simple HTML so anything that needs to be edited on the Notes client should be left with the RichText editor. For tables, plugins like quill-better-table extend the functionality and pasting formatted HTML is not bad but haven't experimented with really complex cases. What's nice about Quill is the extensibility with all the various modules available.

Are you aware of any plans to upgrade the built-in RichText CKEditor in XPages? (wishful thinking!).

CKEditor 5 is a completely different editor to CKEditor 4. The plugin model that exists currently, as far as I can tell, is just not possible. It’s more a case of “replacing” than “upgrading”. But CKEditor 4 is still supported until 2023. I had a session at Collabsphere on the complications in the current landscape with web rich text editors. quill-better-table is okay for a basic table, but from what I saw it suffers from the same (or worse) limitations for more advanced table functionality, e.g. bullets/numbering in a table and tables in tables. I think providing table support could lead to end users expecting a level of functionality that is not available. At least it’s easier to get HTML out than some of the newer breed rich text editors / frameworks.

Quill is a nice simple editor and one of many I looked at earlier this year. But it’s important to be aware of its limitations and for that reason I wouldn’t recommend it for existing content or content that needs to be edited in Notes Client. Tables are particularly problematic. Formatted pasting of HTML content may also be a challenge - I didn’t investigate in enough detail to try that.

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