Style and Appearance in ASP.NET MVC Rich Text Editor

Use the following CSS structures to customize the editor’s appearance.

Styling the placeholder text

Use the following CSS to customize the placeholder text color:

.e-richtexteditor .e-rte-placeholder {
    color: blue;
    font-family: monospace;
}

Styling the editor content area

Use the following CSS to modify the default style of the editor’s content area, including font properties, background, and text color.

/* To change font family and font size */
.e-richtexteditor .e-rte-content .e-content,
.e-richtexteditor .e-source-content .e-content {
    font-size: 20px;
    font-family: "Segoe UI";
}

/* To change font color and content background */
.e-richtexteditor .e-rte-content,
.e-richtexteditor .e-source-content {
    background: seashell;
    color: blue;
}

Customizing the toolbar appearance

Use the following CSS to customize the toolbar icon color.

/* To change font color for toolbar icon */
.e-richtexteditor .e-rte-toolbar .e-toolbar-item .e-icons,
.e-richtexteditor .e-rte-toolbar .e-toolbar-item .e-icons:active {
    color: red;
}

/* To change font color for toolbar button */
.e-toolbar .e-tbar-btn,
.e-toolbar .e-tbar-btn:active,
.e-toolbar .e-tbar-btn:hover {
    color: red;
}

/* To change font color for toolbar button in active state*/
.e-richtexteditor .e-rte-toolbar .e-toolbar-item .e-dropdown-btn.e-active .e-icons, .e-richtexteditor .e-rte-toolbar .e-toolbar-item .e-dropdown-btn.e-active .e-rte-dropdown-btn-text {
    color: red;
}

/* To change font color for expanded toolbar items */
.e-richtexteditor .e-rte-toolbar .e-toolbar-extended .e-toolbar-item .e-tbar-btn .e-icons,
.e-toolbar.e-extended-toolbar .e-toolbar-extended .e-toolbar-item .e-tbar-btn {
    color: red;
}

Styling the character count display

Use the following CSS to customize the character count styling:

.e-richtexteditor .e-rte-character-count {
    color: red;
    font-family: "Segoe UI";
    font-size: 18px;
    opacity: 0.54;
    padding-bottom: 2px;
    padding-right: 14px;
}

Modifying the editor container border

Use the following CSS to customize the editor container border.

.e-richtexteditor .e-rte-container {
    border: 2px solid #454bc1;
    border-radius: 4px;
}

Highlighting specific text programmatically

Programmatically highlight a portion of the text in the editor by setting the background color. Apply a background style to the selected text using the Rich Text Editor’s executeCommand method.