Lexical Plugins

React-based plugins are using Lexical editor instance from <LexicalComposer> context:

import {LexicalComposer} from '@lexical/react/LexicalComposer';
import {PlainTextPlugin} from '@lexical/react/LexicalPlainTextPlugin';
import {ContentEditable} from '@lexical/react/LexicalContentEditable';
import {HistoryPlugin} from '@lexical/react/LexicalHistoryPlugin';
import {OnChangePlugin} from '@lexical/react/LexicalOnChangePlugin';

const initialConfig = {
  namespace: 'MyEditor',
  theme,
  onError,
};

<LexicalComposer initialConfig={initialConfig}>
  <PlainTextPlugin
    contentEditable={<ContentEditable />}
    placeholder={<div>Enter some text...</div>}
  />
  <HistoryPlugin />
  <OnChangePlugin onChange={onChange} />
  ...
</LexicalComposer>

Note: Many plugins might require you to register the one or many Lexical nodes in order for the plugin to work. You can do this by passing a reference to the node to the nodes array in your initial editor configuration.

const initialConfig = {
  namespace: 'MyEditor',
  theme,
  nodes: [ListNode, ListItemNode], // Pass the references to the nodes here
  onError,
};

LexicalPlainTextPlugin

React wrapper for @lexical/plain-text that adds major features for plain text editing, including typing, deletion and copy/pasting

<PlainTextPlugin
  contentEditable={<ContentEditable />}
  placeholder={<div>Enter some text...</div>}
  ErrorBoundary={LexicalErrorBoundary}
/>

LexicalRichTextPlugin

React wrapper for @lexical/rich-text that adds major features for rich text editing, including typing, deletion, copy/pasting, indent/outdent and bold/italic/underline/strikethrough text formatting

<RichTextPlugin
  contentEditable={<ContentEditable />}
  placeholder={<div>Enter some text...</div>}
  ErrorBoundary={LexicalErrorBoundary}
/>

LexicalOnChangePlugin

Plugin that calls onChange whenever Lexical state is updated. Using ignoreHistoryMergeTagChange (true by default) and ignoreSelectionChange (false by default) can give more granular control over changes that are causing onChange call

<OnChangePlugin onChange={onChange} />

LexicalHistoryPlugin

React wrapper for @lexical/history that adds support for history stack management and undo / redo commands

<HistoryPlugin />

LexicalLinkPlugin

React wrapper for @lexical/link that adds support for links, including $toggleLink command support that toggles link for selected text

<LinkPlugin />

LexicalListPlugin

React wrapper for @lexical/list that adds support for lists (ordered and unordered)

<ListPlugin />

LexicalCheckListPlugin

React wrapper for @lexical/list that adds support for check lists. Note that it requires some css to render check/uncheck marks. See PlaygroundEditorTheme.css for details.

<CheckListPlugin />

LexicalTablePlugin

React wrapper for @lexical/table that adds support for tables

<TablePlugin />

LexicalTabIndentationPlugin

Plugin that allows tab indentation in combination with @lexical/rich-text.

<TabIndentationPlugin />

LexicalAutoLinkPlugin

Plugin will convert text into links based on passed matchers list. In example below whenever user types url-like string it will automaticaly convert it into a link node

const URL_MATCHER =
  /((https?:\/\/(www\.)?)|(www\.))[-a-zA-Z0-9@:%._+~#=]{1,256}\.[a-zA-Z0-9()]{1,6}\b([-a-zA-Z0-9()@:%_+.~#?&//=]*)/;

const MATCHERS = [
  (text) => {
    const match = URL_MATCHER.exec(text);
    if (match === null) {
      return null;
    }
    const fullMatch = match[0];
    return {
      index: match.index,
      length: fullMatch.length,
      text: fullMatch,
      url: fullMatch.startsWith('http') ? fullMatch : `https://${fullMatch}`,
      // attributes: { rel: 'noreferrer', target: '_blank' }, // Optional link attributes
    };
  },
];

...

<AutoLinkPlugin matchers={MATCHERS} />

LexicalClearEditorPlugin

Adds clearEditor command support to clear editor's content

<ClearEditorPlugin />

LexicalMarkdownShortcutPlugin

Adds markdown shortcut support: headings, lists, code blocks, quotes, links and inline styles (bold, italic, strikethrough)

<MarkdownShortcutPlugin />

TableOfContentsPlugin

This plugin allows you to navigate to certain sections of the page by clicking on headings that exist inside these sections. Once you load the plugin, it automatically collects and injects the headings of the page inside the table of contents, then it listens to any deletions or modifications to those headings and updates the table of contents. Additionally, it's able to track any newly added headings and inserts them in the table of contents once they are created. This plugin also supports lazy loading - so you can defer adding the plugin until when the user needs it.

<TableOfContentsPlugin />

You can alternatively leverage the use of LexicalTableOfContents API, which provides you with all the functionality that TableOfContentsPlugin provides, but without any styling. In order to use LexicalTableOfContents, you need to pass a callback function in its children. This callback function gives you access to the up-to-date data of the table of contents. You can access this data through a single parameter for the callback which comes in the form of an array of arrays [[headingKey, headingTextContent, headingTag], [], [], ...] headingKey: Unique key that identifies the heading.headingTextContent: A string of the exact text of the heading.headingTag: A string that reads either 'h1', 'h2', or 'h3'.

<LexicalTableOfContents>
  {(tableOfContentsArray) => {
    return <MyCustomTableOfContetsPlugin tableOfContents={tableOfContentsArray} />;
  }}
</LexicalTableOfContents>

LexicalEditorRefPlugin

Allows you to get a ref to the underlying editor instance outside of LexicalComposer, which is convenient when you want to interact with the editor from a separate part of your application.

  const editorRef = useRef(null);
  <EditorRefPlugin editorRef={editorRef} />