Changelog

Some media elements wouldn’t update when changing the source URL.

Inline toolbars flickered when switching between editors.

Multiple inline toolbars were shown if focused too quickly.

Added background and additional spacing for the text labeled buttons in the toolbar to improve visual clarity.

Toolbar split buttons with text used an incorrect width on touch devices.

Fixed the dev ZIP missing the required bin scripts to build from the source.

Fixed a regression whereby text patterns couldn’t be updated at runtime.

Fixed an issue where tables with colgroups could be copied incorrectly in some cases.

Naked buttons better adapt to various background colors, improved text contrast in notifications.

The autocompleter would not fire the AutocompleterStart event nor close the menu in some cases.

It wasn’t possible to select text right after an inline noneditable element.

Fixed a double border showing for the tinymce-5 skin when using toolbar_location: 'bottom'.

Clipboard content was not generated correctly when cutting and copying contenteditable="false" elements.

Fixed the box-shadow getting clipped in autocompletor popups.

The buttonType property did not work for dialog footer buttons.

Fix contrast ratio for error messages.

New editor.options API to replace the old editor.settings and editor.getParam APIs.

New editor.annotator.removeAll API to remove all annotations by name.

New Resource.unload API to make it possible to unload resources.

New FakeClipboard API on the tinymce global.

New dispatch() function to replace the now deprecated fire() function in various APIs.

New AutocompleterStart, AutocompleterUpdate and AutocompleterEnd events.

New mceAutocompleterClose, mceAutocompleterReload commands.

New mceInsertTableDialog command to open the insert table dialog.

New slider dialog component.

New imagepreview dialog component, allowing preview and zoom of any image URL.

New buttonType property on dialog button components, supporting toolbar style in addition to primary and secondary.

The tabindex attribute is now copied from the target element to the iframe.

New default theme styling for TinyMCE 6 facelift with old skin available as tinymce-5 and tinymce-5-dark.

The default height of editor has been increased from 200px to 400px to improve the usability of the editor.

The upload results returned from the editor.uploadImages() API now includes a removed flag, reflecting if the image was removed after a failed upload.

The ScriptLoader, StyleSheetLoader, AddOnManager, PluginManager and ThemeManager APIs will now return a Promise when loading resources instead of using callbacks.

A ThemeLoadError event is now fired if the theme fails to load.

The BeforeSetContent event will now include the actual serialized content when passing in an AstNode to the editor.setContent API.

Improved support for placing the caret before or after noneditable elements within the editor.

Calls to editor.selection.setRng now update the caret position bookmark used when focus is returned to the editor.

The emoticon plugin dialog, toolbar and menu item has been updated to use the more accurate Emojis term.

The dialog redial API will now only rerender the changed components instead of the whole dialog.

The dialog API setData method now uses a deep merge algorithm to support partial nested objects.

The dialog spec initialData type is now Partial<T> to match the underlying implementation details.

Notifications no longer require a timeout to disable the close button.

The editor theme is now fetched in parallel with the icons, language pack and plugins.

TinyMCE is now MIT licensed.

Moved the paste plugin’s functionality to TinyMCE core.

The paste_data_images option now defaults to true.

Moved the noneditable plugin to TinyMCE core.

Renamed the noneditable_noneditable_class option to noneditable_class.

Renamed the noneditable_editable_class option to editable_class.

Moved the textpattern plugin to TinyMCE core.

Renamed the textpattern_patterns option to text_patterns.

Moved the hr plugin’s functionality to TinyMCE core.

Moved the print plugin’s functionality to TinyMCE core.

Moved non-UI table functionality to core.

The DomParser API no longer uses a custom parser internally and instead uses the native DOMParser API.

The editor.getContent() API can provide custom content by preventing and overriding content in the BeforeGetContent event. This makes it consistent with the editor.selection.getContent() API.

The editor.setContent() API can now be prevented using the BeforeSetContent event. This makes it consistent with the editor.selection.setContent() API.

Add-ons such as plugins and themes are no longer constructed using the new operator.

A number of APIs that were not proper classes, are no longer constructed using the new operator.

The Editor commands APIs will no longer fallback to executing the browsers native command functionality.

The Editor query command APIs will now return false or an empty string on removed editors.

The mceAddEditor and mceToggleEditor commands now take an object as their value to specify the id and editor options.

The mceInsertTable command can no longer open the insert table dialog. Use the mceInsertTableDialog command instead.

The plugins option now returns a string array instead of a space separated string.

The media plugin no longer treats iframe, video, audio or object elements as "special" and will validate the contents against the schema.

The images_upload_handler option is no longer passed a success or failure callback and instead requires a Promise to be returned with the upload result.

The tinymce.settings global property is no longer set upon initialization.

The change event is no longer fired on first modification.

The GetContent event will now always pass a string for the content property.

Changed the default tag for the strikethrough format to the s tag when using a html 5 schema.

The strike tag is automatically converted to the s tag when using a html 5 schema.

Aligning a table to the left or right will now use margin styling instead of float styling.

The : control character has been changed to ~ for the schema valid_elements and extended_valid_elements options.

The primary property on dialog buttons has been deprecated. Use the new buttonType property instead.

Changed the default statusbar element path delimiter from » to ›.

Replaced the Powered by Tiny branding text with the Tiny logo.

The default minimum height of editor has been changed to 100px to prevent the UI disappearing while resizing.

RGB colors are no longer converted to hex values when parsing or serializing content.

Replaced the isDisabled() function with an isEnabled() function for various APIs.

Replaced the enable() and disable() functions with a setEnabled(state) function in various APIs.

Replaced the disabled property with an enabled property in various APIs.

Replaced the disable(name) and enable(name) functions with a setEnabled(name, state) function in the Dialog APIs.

Renamed the tinymce.Env.os.isOSX API to tinymce.Env.os.isMacOS.

Renamed the tinymce.Env.browser.isChrome API to tinymce.Env.browser.isChromium to better reflect its functionality.

Renamed the getShortEndedElements Schema API to getVoidElements.

Renamed the font_formats option to font_family_formats.

Renamed the fontselect toolbar button and fontformats menu item to fontfamily.

Renamed the fontsize_formats option to font_size_formats.

Renamed the fontsizeselect toolbar button and fontsizes menu item to fontsize.

Renamed the formatselect toolbar button and blockformats menu item to blocks.

Renamed the styleselect toolbar button and formats menu item to styles.

Renamed the lineheight_formats option to line_height_formats.

Renamed the getWhiteSpaceElements() function to getWhitespaceElements() in the Schema API.

Renamed the mceInsertClipboardContent command content property to html to better reflect what data is passed.

Renamed the default_link_target option to link_default_target for both link and autolink plugins.

Renamed the rel_list option to link_rel_list for the link plugin.

Renamed the target_list option to link_target_list for the link plugin.

The default value for the link_default_protocol option has been changed to https instead of http.

The default value for the element_format option has been changed to html.

The default value for the schema option has been changed to html5.

The default value for the table_style_by_css option has been changed to true.

The default value for the table_use_colgroups option has been changed to true.

The object returned from the editor.fire() API was incorrect if the editor had been removed.

The editor.selection.getContent() API did not respect the no_events argument.

The editor.annotator.remove API did not keep selection when removing the annotation.

The GetContent event was not fired when getting tree or text formats using the editor.selection.getContent() API.

The beforeinput and input events would sometimes not fire as expected when deleting content.

The table plugin would sometimes not correctly handle headers in the tfoot section.

The silver theme UI was incorrectly rendered before plugins had initialized.

The aria labels for the color picker dialog were not translated.

Fixed sub-menu items not read by screen readers. Patch contributed by westonkd.

Dialog labels and other text-based UI properties did not escape HTML markup.

Anchor elements would render incorrectly when using the allow_html_in_named_anchor option.

The AstNode HTML serializer did not serialize pre or textarea elements correctly when they contained newlines.

The Home or End keys would move out of a editable element contained within a noneditable element.

Dialogs could not be opened in inline mode before the editor had been rendered.

Clicking on menu items could cause an unexpected console warning if the onAction function caused the menu to close.

Fixed various color and contrast issues for the dark skins.

Removed support for Microsoft Internet Explorer 11.

Removed support for Microsoft Word from the opensource paste functionality.

Removed support for the plugins option allowing a mixture of a string array and of space separated strings.

Removed support for the deprecated false value for the forced_root_block option.

Removed the jQuery integration.

Removed the imagetools plugin, which is now classified as a Premium plugin.

Removed the imagetools dialog component.

Removed the toc plugin, which is now classified as a Premium plugin.

Removed the tabfocus plugin.

Removed the textpattern plugin’s API as part of moving it to core.

Removed the table plugin’s API.

Removed the callback for the EditorUpload API.

Removed the legacy browser detection properties from the Env API.

Removed the filterNode method from the DomParser API.

Removed the SaxParser API.

Removed the tinymce.utils.Promise API.

Removed the toHex function for the DOMUtils and Styles APIs.

Removed the execCommand handler function from the plugin and theme interfaces.

Removed the editor.settings property as it has been replaced by the new Options API.

Removed the shortEnded and fixed properties on tinymce.html.Node class.

Removed the mceInsertRawHTML command.

Removed the style field from the image plugin dialog advanced tab.

Removed the paste_filter_drop option as native drag and drop handling is no longer supported.

Removed the legacy mobile theme.

Removed the deprecated $, Class, DomQuery and Sizzle APIs.

Removed the deprecated Color, JSON, JSONP and JSONRequest.

Removed the deprecated XHR API.

Removed the deprecated setIconStroke Split Toolbar Button API.

Removed the deprecated editors property from EditorManager.

Removed the deprecated execCallback and setMode APIs from Editor.

Removed the deprecated addComponents and dependencies APIs from AddOnManager.

Removed the deprecated clearInterval, clearTimeout, debounce, requestAnimationFrame, setInterval, setTimeout and throttle APIs from Delay.

Removed the deprecated Schema options.

Removed the deprecated file_browser_callback_types, force_hex_style_colors and images_dataimg_filter options.

Removed the deprecated filepicker_validator_handler, force_p_newlines, gecko_spellcheck, tab_focus, table_responsive_width and toolbar_drawer options.

Removed the deprecated media_scripts option in the media plugin.

Removed the deprecated editor_deselector, editor_selector, elements, mode and types legacy TinyMCE init options.

Removed the deprecated content_editable_state and padd_empty_with_br options.

Removed the deprecated autoresize_on_init option from the autoresize plugin.

Removed the deprecated fullpage, spellchecker, bbcode, legacyoutput, colorpicker, contextmenu and textcolor plugins.

Removed the undocumented editor.editorCommands.hasCustomCommand API.

Removed the undocumented mceResetDesignMode, mceRepaint and mceBeginUndoLevel commands.

The dialog button component’s primary property has been deprecated and will be removed in the next major release. Use the new buttonType property instead.

The fire() function of tinymce.Editor, tinymce.dom.EventUtils, tinymce.dom.DOMUtils, tinymce.util.Observable and tinymce.util.EventDispatcher has been deprecated and will be removed in the next major release. Use the dispatch() function instead.

The content property on the SetContent event has been deprecated and will be removed in the next major release.

The return value of the editor.setContent API has been deprecated and will be removed in the next major release.