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Overview

The Xamarin Rich Text Editor provides a simple yet powerful editor interface to compose richly formatted text with all the common formatting options like bold and italics. The Rich Text Editor is used to create messaging applications, email composers, blog editors, forum post text boxes, feedback and review sections, notes sections, and more. It has a variety of tools to edit and format rich content and returns valid HTML markup content.


Formatting text

You can apply different formatting styles to selected content, whole paragraphs, or specific words or characters:

  • Bold, italics, and underlining.
  • Font color and background color.
  • Formatting for headings, quotations, code, paragraphs, etc.
  • Customizable indentation for paragraphs.
  • Text alignment for content.

Xamarin.Forms Rich Text Editor formatting options.


Adding lists

Organize content by applying ordered (numbered) or unordered (bulleted) lists.

Xamarin.Forms Rich Text Editor provides list support for content.


Inserting images

Insert JPEG and PNG images from a photo gallery, embedded resource, or stream into the Rich Text Editor content.

Xamarin.Forms Rich Text Editor provides image insertion support.


Clipboard

Cut, copy, and paste formatted content within an application or to an external application.

Xamarin.Forms Rich Text Editor provides formatting for clipboard content.


Toolbar customization

  • Customize the toolbar appearance by changing the toolbar’s background color, plus the text color and background color of toolbar items.
  • Show or hide the entire built-in toolbar or a specific toolbar item.
  • Design your own toolbar and achieve the functionalities you require using our comprehensive APIs.

Xamarin.Forms Rich Text Editor toolbar can be fully customized.


Customizing font

Add fonts from a stream or embedded resource to use in the Rich Text Editor. The default font can also be customized.

Xamarin.Forms Rich Text Editor provides font customization support.


AutoSize

RTE accommodates a user’s input by changing the control height automatically to fit the content inside the editable area. The height of the control in AutoSize mode can be controlled using MaximumHeightRequest and MinimumHeightRequest properties.

Xamarin.Forms Rich Text Editor provides autosizing support.


Xamarin.Forms Rich Text Editor Code Example

Easily get started with the Xamarin.Forms Rich Text Editor using a few simple lines of C# code example as demonstrated below. Also explore our Xamarin.Forms Rich Text Editor Example that shows you how to render and configure the Rich Text Editor for Xamarin.Forms.

<StackLayout>
   <richtexteditor:SfRichTextEditor VerticalOptions="FillAndExpand" Text= "The rich text editor component is WYSIWYG editor that provides the best user experience to create and update the content" />
</StackLayout>
public MainPage()
{
InitializeComponent();
StackLayout stack = new StackLayout();
SfRichTextEditor editor = new SfRichTextEditor
{
VerticalOptions = LayoutOptions.FillAndExpand,Text = "The rich text editor component is WYSIWYG editor that provides the best user experience to create and update the content"
};
stack.Children.Add(editor);this.Content = stack;
}



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Frequently Asked Questions

The Syncfusion Xamarin Rich Text Editor provides the following:

  • A simple yet powerful editor interface to compose richly formatted text with all the common formatting options like bold and italics.
  • The ability to create messaging applications, email composers, blog editors, forum post text boxes, feedback and review sections, notes sections, and more.
  • A variety of tools to edit and format rich content and return valid HTML markup content.
  • Simple configuration and API.
  • A touch-friendly and responsive UI.
  • Extensive demos and documentation to learn quickly and get started with Xamarin Rich Text Editor.

You can find our Xamarin Rich Text Editor demo here.

No, this is a commercial product and requires a paid license. However, a free community license is also available for companies and individuals whose organizations have less than $1 million USD in annual gross revenue, 5 or fewer developers, and 10 or fewer total employees.

A good place to start would be our comprehensive getting started documentation.

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