Commenting & collaboration

The Comments plugin provides an ability to start or join a conversation by adding comments to the content within the TinyMCE editor.

Users can now add comments to their text from within their TinyMCE editor for collaboration, review, and providing feedback.

Collaborate on your projects within your content

The Comments plugin offers the following primary functionality:

  • A user interface to collaborate on content by creating and replying to comments.

  • A way to control the delete operation on a comment/comment thread if you want to remove it from your content.

Primary Comments Functions

The Comments plugin allows the user to perform the following functions:

  • Create a comment

  • Reply to a comment

  • Delete a comment/comment thread

  • Lookup a comment

  • Edit a comment

Try our Comments plugin demo

  • TinyMCE

  • HTML

  • JS

  • Edit on CodePen

<div id="tiny-ui">
  <textarea id="comments-embedded" style="width: 100%; height: 500px;">
    <h2>Welcome to Tiny Comments!</h2>
    <p>Please try out this demo of our new Tiny Comments premium plugin.</p>
    <ol>
      <li>Highlight the content you want to comment on.</li>
      <li>Click the <em>Add Comment</em> icon in the toolbar.</li>
      <li>Type your comment into the text field at the bottom of the Comment sidebar.</li>
      <li>Click <strong>Save</strong>.</li>
    </ol>
    <p>Your comment is then attached to the text, <span class="mce-annotation tox-comment" data-mce-annotation-uid="mce-conversation_19679600221621399703915" data-mce-annotation="tinycomments">exactly like this!</span></p>
    <p>If you want to take Tiny Comments for a test drive in your own environment, Tiny Comments is one of the premium plugins you can try for free for 30 days by signing up for a Tiny account. Make sure to check out our documentation as well.</p>
    <p>And if you are ready to buy, you can either purchase Tiny Comments a la carte or as part of your Tiny Pro subscription. If you are a current cloud user, Tiny Comments has already been added to your key, and if you are a self-hosted user, Tiny Comments is now available in the latest download which you can access in My Account.</p>
    <h2>A simple table to play with</h2>
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      <thead>
        <tr>
          <th>Product</th>
          <th>Value</th>
        </tr>
      </thead>
      <tbody>
        <tr>
          <td><a href="https://www.tiny.cloud/">Tiny Cloud</a></td>
          <td>The easiest and most reliable way to integrate powerful rich text editing into your application.</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td><a href="https://www.tiny.cloud/drive/">Tiny Drive</a></td>
          <td>Image and file management for TinyMCE in the cloud.</td>
        </tr>
      </tbody>
    </table>
    <p>Thanks for supporting TinyMCE! We hope it helps your users create great content.</p>
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  </textarea>
</div>
var currentAuthor = 'A Tiny User';
var userAllowedToResolve = 'Admin1';

tinymce.init({
  selector: 'textarea#comments-embedded',
  toolbar: 'bold italic underline | addcomment showcomments',
  menubar: 'file edit view insert format tools tc',
  menu: {
    tc: {
      title: 'Comments',
      items: 'addcomment showcomments deleteallconversations'
    }
  },
  plugins: 'paste code tinycomments',
  tinycomments_mode: 'embedded',
  tinycomments_author: currentAuthor,
  tinycomments_can_resolve: function (req, done, fail) {
    var allowed = req.comments.length > 0 &&
                  req.comments[0].author === currentAuthor;
    done({
      canResolve: allowed || currentAuthor === userAllowedToResolve
    });
  },
  content_style: 'body { font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px }',
  /* The following setup callback opens the comments sidebar when the editor loads */
  setup: function (editor) {
    editor.on('SkinLoaded', function () {
      editor.execCommand("ToggleSidebar", false, "showcomments", { skip_focus: true });
    })
  }
});

Getting started with Comments

Creating an account

Try the Comments plugin and the Tiny Cloud with a free Tiny Account. New accounts receive a 30-day trial of the Tiny premium plugins, skins, and icon packs; with no credit card information or commitment required.

Get Comments

The Comments plugin is included in Tiny Custom Plans.

Further information

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