Overview of the JavaScript (ES6) DOCX Editor

21 May 20263 minutes to read

The Syncfusion^® JavaScript DOCX Editor is a feature-rich, user-interactive component that enables creating, editing, viewing, and printing Word documents with advanced formatting, editing capabilities, and broad support for document import and export formats.

Key Features

• Opens the native Syncfusion Document Text (*.sfdt) format documents in the client-side.

• Saves the documents in the client-side as Syncfusion Document Text (*.sfdt) and Word document (*.docx).

• Supports document elements like text, image, table, fields, bookmark,shapes, section, header and footer.

• Supports the commonly used fields like hyperlink, page number, page count, and table of contents.

• Supports formats like text, paragraph, bullets and numbering, table, and page settings.

• Provides support to create, edit, and apply paragraph and character styles.

• Provides support to find and replace text within the document.

• Supports all the common editing and formatting operations along with undo and redo.

• Provides support to cut, copy, and paste rich text contents within the component. Also allows pasting simple text to and from other applications.

• Provides support to insert, and edit form fields.

• Provides support to insert, and edit comments.

• Provides support to track the inserted and deleted content.

• Provides support to perform spell checking for any input text.

• Allows user interactions like zoom, scroll, select contents through touch, mouse, and keyboard.

• Provides intuitive UI options like context menu, dialogs, and navigation pane.

• Provides a ribbon interface similar to Microsoft Word, with tab-based commands for quick and intuitive access to features.

• Localizes all the static text to any desired language.

• Allows to create a lightweight Word viewer using module injection to view and prints Word documents.

• Provides a server-side helper library to open the Word documents like DOCX, DOC, WordML, RTF, and Text, by converting it to SFDT file format.

Supported platforms for server-side dependencies

The Document Editor component requires server-side interactions for the following operations:

• Open file formats other than SFDT

• Paste with formatting

• Restrict editing

• Spell check

• Save as file formats other than SFDT and DOCX

You can deploy web APIs for server-side dependencies of Document Editor component in the following platforms.

• ASP.NET Core
• ASP.NET MVC
• Java

To know more about server-side dependencies, refer this page.

NOTE

If you don’t require the above functionalities then you can deploy as pure client-side component without any server-side interactions.