Customize tool bar in React Document editor component

19 Jun 20265 minutes to read

How to customize existing toolbar in DocumentEditorContainer

Document Editor Container allows you to customize(add, show, hide, enable, and disable) existing items in a toolbar.

• Add - New items can defined by CustomToolbarItemModel and with existing items in toolbarItems property. Newly added item click action can be defined in toolbarClick.

• Show, Hide - Existing items can be shown or hidden using the toolbarItems property. Pre-defined toolbar items are available with ToolbarItem.

• Enable, Disable - Toolbar items can be enabled or disable using enableItems

import { createRoot } from 'react-dom/client';
import './index.css';
import * as React from 'react';
import {
  DocumentEditorContainerComponent,
  CustomToolbarItemModel,
  Toolbar,
} from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-documenteditor';
DocumentEditorContainerComponent.Inject(Toolbar);
let container = DocumentEditorContainerComponent;
function App() {
  //Custom toolbar item.
  let toolItem = {
    prefixIcon: 'e-de-ctnr-lock',
    tooltipText: 'Disable Image',
    text: onWrapText('Disable Image'),
    id: 'Custom',
  };
  let items = [
    toolItem,
    'Undo',
    'Redo',
    'Separator',
    'Image',
    'Table',
    'Hyperlink',
    'Bookmark',
    'TableOfContents',
    'Separator',
    'Header',
    'Footer',
    'PageSetup',
    'PageNumber',
    'Break',
    'InsertFootnote',
    'InsertEndnote',
    'Separator',
    'Find',
    'Separator',
    'Comments',
    'TrackChanges',
    'Separator',
    'LocalClipboard',
    'RestrictEditing',
    'Separator',
    'FormFields',
    'UpdateFields',
    'ContentControl',
  ];
  function onToolbarClick(args) {
    switch (args.item.id) {
      case 'save':
        //Save the document(Download the document)
        container.documentEditor.save('sample', 'Docx');
        break;
      default:
        break;
    }
  }

  function onToolbarClick(args) {
    switch (args.item.id) {
      case 'Custom':
        //Disable image toolbar item.
        container.toolbar.enableItems(4, false);
        break;
      default:
        break;
    }
  }
  function onWrapText(text) {
    let content = '';
    const index = text.lastIndexOf(' ');
    if (index !== -1) {
      content =
        text.slice(0, index) +
        "<div class='e-de-text-wrap'>" +
        text.slice(index + 1) +
        '</div>';
    } else {
      content = text;
    }
    return content;
  }
  return (
    <div>
      <DocumentEditorContainerComponent
        id="container"
        ref={(scope) => {
          container = scope;
        }}
        height={'590px'}
        serviceUrl="https://ej2services.syncfusion.com/production/web-services/api/documenteditor/"
        toolbarItems={items}
        toolbarClick={onToolbarClick.bind(this)}
        enableToolbar={true}
      />
    </div>
  );
}
export default App;
createRoot(document.getElementById('sample')).render(<App />);

Note: Default value of toolbarItems is ['New', 'Open', 'Separator', 'Undo', 'Redo', 'Separator', 'Image', 'Table', 'Hyperlink', 'Bookmark', 'TableOfContents', 'Separator', 'Header', 'Footer', 'PageSetup', 'PageNumber', 'Break', 'InsertFootnote', 'InsertEndnote', 'Separator', 'Find', 'Separator', 'Comments', 'TrackChanges', 'Separator', 'LocalClipboard', 'RestrictEditing', 'Separator', 'FormFields', 'UpdateFields','ContentControl'].

Online Demo

Explore how to customize the toolbar in the React Document Editor for working with Word documents in this live demo here.