Custom toolbar button

This example shows you how to add a custom button to the toolbar in TinyMCE 5.

  • TinyMCE

  • HTML

  • JS

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<textarea id="custom-toolbar-button">
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</textarea>
tinymce.init({
  selector: 'textarea#custom-toolbar-button',
  toolbar: 'customInsertButton customDateButton',
  setup: function (editor) {

    editor.ui.registry.addButton('customInsertButton', {
      text: 'My Button',
      onAction: function (_) {
        editor.insertContent('&nbsp;<strong>It\'s my button!</strong>&nbsp;');
      }
    });

    var toTimeHtml = function (date) {
      return '<time datetime="' + date.toString() + '">' + date.toDateString() + '</time>';
    };

    editor.ui.registry.addButton('customDateButton', {
      icon: 'insert-time',
      tooltip: 'Insert Current Date',
      disabled: true,
      onAction: function (_) {
        editor.insertContent(toTimeHtml(new Date()));
      },
      onSetup: function (buttonApi) {
        var editorEventCallback = function (eventApi) {
          buttonApi.setDisabled(eventApi.element.nodeName.toLowerCase() === 'time');
        };
        editor.on('NodeChange', editorEventCallback);

        /* onSetup should always return the unbind handlers */
        return function (buttonApi) {
          editor.off('NodeChange', editorEventCallback);
        };
      }
    });
  },
  content_style: 'body { font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px }'
});