Well to change the color or height or width or even change the whole look (skin) of CKEditor , we just need to keep in mind 1 file, and that is the ” config.js ” file in the ckeditor folder.
Any changes made to the main config.js file will reflect on all the pages where the CKEditor has been used.
But if you don’t want the changes to show on all the pages then you only need to add some code in the respective pages where you want the changes to happen.
This code below will give you a nice idea about how to change the properties of your CKEditor using the config.js file
( code inside the config.js file is given below )
CKEDITOR.editorConfig = function( config )
{
// config.language = 'fr';
// config.customConfig = '/ckeditor/config.js';
// config.toolbar = 'Basic';
// config.uiColor = '#dfe8f6';
config.height = 200;
config.width = 250;
config.skin = 'v2'; //config.skin = 'office2003';
//config.skin = 'kama';
CKEDITOR.config.toolbar_Basic = [
['Source','-','Templates'],
['Cut','Copy','Paste','PasteText','PasteFromWord','-','Print', 'SpellChecker', 'Scayt'],
['Undo','Redo','-','Find','Replace','-','SelectAll','RemoveFormat'],
['Checkbox', 'Radio', 'TextField', 'Textarea', 'Select', 'Button', 'ImageButton', 'HiddenField'],
'/',
['Bold','Italic','Underline','Strike','-','Subscript','Superscript'],
['NumberedList','BulletedList','-','Outdent','Indent','Blockquote'],
['JustifyLeft','JustifyCenter','JustifyRight','JustifyBlock'],
['Link','Unlink','Anchor'],
['Flash','Table','HorizontalRule','Smiley','SpecialChar','PageBreak'],
'/',
['Styles','Format','Font','FontSize'],
['TextColor','BGColor'],
['Maximize', 'ShowBlocks','-','About']
]
config.toolbar = 'Basic';
config.extraPlugins = "insert_image";
};
Below is the preview of the toolbar after making the above changes in the config file
Now let’s try changing only the color of the toolbar, for that you just have to write something like this in the config.js
// config.language = 'fr'; // config.customConfig = '/ckeditor/config.js'; config.toolbar = 'Basic'; config.uiColor = '#800040'; // config.height = 200; // config.width = 250; // config.skin = 'v2';
Now the toolbar will look something like this
But if you don’t want the changes to be shown in every single page where you have used CKEditor then you have to write a few lines of code in the individual pages where you want to change the properties of your CKEditor.
In this case, I want the changes to show up only on one page called “test-editor.html”.
Case 1: changing the skin only
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 strict//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Truelogic.org::TestEditor::CKEditor example </title>
<script type="text/javascript" src="ckeditor/ckeditor.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<form name="" action="" method="">
<textarea id="txtDescrip" name="txtDescrip" cols="20" rows="5" class="ckeditor"></textarea>
<script type="text/javascript">
var editor = CKEDITOR.replace( 'txtDescrip',
{
toolbar : [
['Source','-','Templates'],
['Cut','Copy','Paste','PasteText','PasteFromWord','-','Print', 'SpellChecker', 'Scayt'],
['Undo','Redo','-','Find','Replace','-','SelectAll','RemoveFormat'],
['Checkbox', 'Radio', 'TextField', 'Textarea', 'Select', 'Button', 'ImageButton', 'HiddenField'],
'/',
['Bold','Italic','Underline','Strike','-','Subscript','Superscript'],
['NumberedList','BulletedList','-','Outdent','Indent','Blockquote'],
['JustifyLeft','JustifyCenter','JustifyRight','JustifyBlock'],
['Link','Unlink','Anchor'],
['Flash','Table','HorizontalRule','Smiley','SpecialChar','PageBreak'],
'/',
['Styles','Format','Font','FontSize'],
['TextColor','BGColor'],
['Maximize', 'ShowBlocks','-','About'],['insert_image']
],
skin : 'office2003', // ALTERED THE SKIN HERE
});
</script>
</form>
</body>
</html>
Case 2: changing the height, width and the color of the toolbar
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 strict//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Truelogic.org::TestEditor::CKEditor example </title>
<script type="text/javascript" src="ckeditor/ckeditor.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<form name="" action="" method="">
<textarea id="txtDescrip" name="txtDescrip" cols="20" rows="5" class="ckeditor"></textarea>
<script type="text/javascript">
var editor = CKEDITOR.replace( 'txtDescrip',
{
toolbar : [
['Source','-','Templates'],
['Cut','Copy','Paste','PasteText','PasteFromWord','-','Print', 'SpellChecker', 'Scayt'],
['Undo','Redo','-','Find','Replace','-','SelectAll','RemoveFormat'],
['Checkbox', 'Radio', 'TextField', 'Textarea', 'Select', 'Button', 'ImageButton', 'HiddenField'],
'/',
['Bold','Italic','Underline','Strike','-','Subscript','Superscript'],
['NumberedList','BulletedList','-','Outdent','Indent','Blockquote'],
['JustifyLeft','JustifyCenter','JustifyRight','JustifyBlock'],
['Link','Unlink','Anchor'],
['Flash','Table','HorizontalRule','Smiley','SpecialChar','PageBreak'],
'/',
['Styles','Format','Font','FontSize'],
['TextColor','BGColor'],
['Maximize', 'ShowBlocks','-','About'],['insert_image']
],
uiColor: 'red',
height: 200,
width: 700,
});
</script>
</form>
</body>
</html>
Hi!
Thanks it was very helpful!
If I want to just open a new page in a new browser window when clicking on an added button in the toolbar, what would be the code for plugin.js and/or other code needed?
Thanks!
Well u already gave me the reply to this question in the previous blog 🙂
The above examples helped me a lot in solving my issue.Thanks a lot.
You are welcome.
Thank you very much! I want change skin ckeditor for CI, but i changed success!. Great
Ver helpful, thanks a lot. You saved me a day
I want to set default text color to Blue and make it to bold. How Can I do it? Please help.
I want to change of width and height of one text area in my page. if i am using config.width.height = ’30’ . it is changing the height of every textarea could you help me.
@kamkahya You can try the following script to change height of one CKEditor textarea assuming the id of the textarea is testarea
It’s work for me. Thank you so much