Flutter Quill

A rich text editor for Flutter

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Flutter Quill is a rich text editor and a Quill component for Flutter.

This library is a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor built for the modern Android, iOS, web and desktop platforms.

Check out our Youtube Playlist or Code Introduction to take a detailed walkthrough of the code base. You can join our Slack Group for discussion.

    

📚 Table of contents

• 📦 Installation
• 🛠 Platform Setup
• 🚀 Usage
• 🔤 Input / Output
• ⚙️ Configurations
• 📦 Embed Blocks
• 🔄 Delta Conversion
• 📝 Rich Text Paste
• ✂️ Shortcut events
• 🌐 Translation
• 🧪 Testing
• 🤝 Contributing
• 📜 Acknowledgments

📦 Installation

flutter pub add flutter_quill

OR

dependencies:
  flutter_quill:
    git:
      url: https://github.com/singerdmx/flutter-quill.git
      ref: v<latest-version-here>

Tip

If you're using version 10.0.0, see the migration guide to migrate to 11.0.0.

🛠 Platform Setup

The flutter_quill package uses the following plugins:

1. url_launcher: to open links.
2. quill_native_bridge: to access platform-specific APIs for the editor.
3. flutter_keyboard_visibility_temp_fork to listen for keyboard visibility changes.

Android Configuration for quill_native_bridge

To support copying images to the clipboard to be accessed by other apps, you need to configure your Android project. If not set up, a warning will appear in the log during debug mode only.

Tip

This is only required on Android for this optional feature. You should be able to copy images and paste them inside the editor without any additional configuration.

1. Update AndroidManifest.xml

Open your_project/android/app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml and add the following inside the <application> tag:

<manifest>
    <application>
        ...
        <provider
            android:name="androidx.core.content.FileProvider"
            android:authorities="${applicationId}.fileprovider"
            android:exported="false"
            android:grantUriPermissions="true" >
            <meta-data
                android:name="android.support.FILE_PROVIDER_PATHS"
                android:resource="@xml/file_paths" />
        </provider>
        ...
    </application>
</manifest>

2. Create file_paths.xml

Create the file your_project/android/app/src/main/res/xml/file_paths.xml with the following content:

<paths>
    <cache-path name="cache" path="." />
</paths>

Note

Starting with Flutter Quill 10.8.4, super_clipboard is no longer required in flutter_quill or flutter_quill_extensions. The new default is an internal plugin quill_native_bridge. If you want to continue using super_clipboard, you can use the quill_super_clipboard package (support may be discontinued).

🚀 Usage

Add the localization delegate to your app widget:

import 'package:flutter_quill/flutter_quill.dart';
import 'package:flutter_localizations/flutter_localizations.dart';

MaterialApp(
  localizationsDelegates: const [
    GlobalMaterialLocalizations.delegate,
    GlobalCupertinoLocalizations.delegate,
    GlobalWidgetsLocalizations.delegate,
    FlutterQuillLocalizations.delegate,
  ]，
);

Instantiate a controller:

QuillController _controller = QuillController.basic();

Use the QuillEditor and QuillSimpleToolbar widgets, and attach the QuillController to them:

QuillSimpleToolbar(
  controller: _controller,
  config: const QuillSimpleToolbarConfig(),
),
Expanded(
  child: QuillEditor.basic(
    controller: _controller,
    config: const QuillEditorConfig(),
  ),
)

Dispose of the QuillController in the dispose method:

@override
void dispose() {
  _controller.dispose();
  super.dispose();
}

Check out Sample Page for more advanced usage.

💥 Breaking Changes

• APIs marked with @experimental are subject to change or removal at any time and should be used with caution, as they may be altered even in minor versions.

• APIs marked with @internal and @visibleForTesting are not intended for public use and should be avoided entirely.

• The package:flutter_quill/internal.dart expose internal APIs to be used by other related packages and should be avoided when possible.

We make every effort to ensure internal APIs are not exported by default. Use experimental features at your own discretion.

We recommend checking the CHANGELOG.md or release notes for each update to stay informed.

🔤 Input / Output

This library utilizes Quill Delta to represent document content. The Delta format is a compact and versatile method for describing document changes through a series of operations that denote insertions, deletions, or formatting changes.

• Use _controller.document.toDelta() to extract the deltas.
• Use _controller.document.toPlainText() to extract plain text.

To save the document as JSON:

final json = jsonEncode(_controller.document.toDelta().toJson());

To open an existing JSON representation that has been previously stored:

final json = jsonDecode(r'{"insert":"hello\n"}');

_controller.document = Document.fromJson(json);

🔗 Links

• Quill Delta
• Quill Delta Formats

⚙️ Configurations

The QuillSimpleToolbar and QuillEditor widgets are both customizable. Sample Page provides sample code for advanced usage and configuration.

🔗 Links

• Using Custom App Widget
• Localizations Setup
• Font Size
• Font Family
• Custom Toolbar buttons
• Search

🖋 Font Family

To use your own fonts, update your Assets folder and pass in fontFamilyValues. More details on this commit, this article and this.

📦 Embed Blocks

The flutter_quill package provides an interface for all the users to provide their own implementations for embed blocks. Implementations for image, video, and formula embed blocks are proved in a separate package flutter_quill_extensions.

🛠️ Using the embed blocks from flutter_quill_extensions

To see how to use the extension package, please take a look at the README of FlutterQuill Extensions

🔗 Links

• Custom Embed Blocks
• Custom Toolbar

🔄 Delta Conversion

Caution

Storing the Delta as HTML in the database to convert it back to Delta when loading the document is not recommended due to the structural and functional differences between HTML and Delta (see this comment). We recommend storing the Document as Delta JSON instead of other formats (e.g., HTML, Markdown, PDF, Microsoft Word, Google Docs, Apple Pages, XML).

Converting Delta from/to HTML is not a standard feature in Quill JS or FlutterQuill.

Available Packages for Conversion

Package	Description
vsc_quill_delta_to_html	Converts Delta to HTML.
flutter_quill_delta_from_html	Converts HTML to Delta.
flutter_quill_to_pdf	Converts Delta to PDF.
markdown_quill	Converts Markdown to Delta and vice versa.
flutter_quill_delta_easy_parser	Converts Quill Delta into a simplified document format, making it easier to manage and manipulate text attributes.

Tip

You might want to convert between HTML and Delta for some use cases:

1. Migration: If you're using an existing system that stores the data in HTML and want to convert the document data to Delta.
2. Sharing: For example, if you want to share the Document Delta somewhere or send it as an email.
3. Save as: If your app has a feature that allows converting Documents to other formats.
4. Rich text pasting: If you copy some content from websites or apps, and want to paste it into the app.
5. SEO: In case you want to use HTML for SEO support.

📝 Rich Text Paste

This feature allows the user to paste the content copied from other apps into the editor as rich text. The plugin quill_native_bridge provides access to the system Clipboard.

Important

Currently this feature is not supported on the web. See issue #1998 and issue #2220 for more details.

✂️ Shortcut events

We can customize some Shorcut events, using the parameters characterShortcutEvents or spaceShortcutEvents from QuillEditorConfig to add more functionality to the editor.

Note

You can get all standard shortcuts using standardCharactersShortcutEvents or standardSpaceShorcutEvents.

To see an example of this, refer to shortcut events page.

🌐 Translation

The package offers translations for the toolbar and editor widgets, it will follow the system locale unless you set your own locale.

See the translation page for more info.

🧪 Testing

Take a look at flutter_quill_test for testing.

Currently, the support for testing is limited.

🤝 Contributing

Important

At this time, we prioritize bug fixes and code quality improvements over new features. Please refrain from submitting large changes to add new features, as they might not be merged, and exceptions may made. We encourage you to create an issue or reach out beforehand, explaining your proposed changes and their rationale for a higher chance of acceptance. Thank you!

We greatly appreciate your time and effort.

To keep the project consistent and maintainable, we have a few guidelines that we ask all contributors to follow. These guidelines help ensure that everyone can understand and work with the code easier.

See Contributing for more details.

📜 Acknowledgments

• Special thanks to everyone who has contributed to this project...
  
  

  
  

  Made with contrib.rocks.

• Thanks to the welcoming community, the volunteers who helped along the journey, developers, contributors and contributors who put time and effort into everything including making all the libraries, tools, and the information we rely on

• We are incredibly grateful to many individuals and organizations who have played a role in the project. This includes the welcoming community, dedicated volunteers, talented developers and contributors, and the creators of the open-source tools we rely on.