Integrating TinyMCE with Django

TinyMCE is a online rich text editor which is fully flexible and provides customisation. mostly used to get dynamic data such as articles in GFG and much more, their is no static database for posts

To integrate it with Django web app or website you need to first install its pip library

pip install django-tinymce

add tinyMCE as individual app in setting.py

INSTALLED_APPS = [
     ...
    'tinymce',
     ... 
]

Also add default configuration for tinyMCE editor in settings.py

TINYMCE_DEFAULT_CONFIG = {
    'cleanup_on_startup': True,
    'custom_undo_redo_levels': 20,
    'selector': 'textarea',
    'theme': 'silver',
    'plugins': '''
            textcolor save link image media preview codesample contextmenu
            table code lists fullscreen  insertdatetime  nonbreaking
            contextmenu directionality searchreplace wordcount visualblocks
            visualchars code fullscreen autolink lists  charmap print  hr
            anchor pagebreak
            ''',
    'toolbar1': '''
            fullscreen preview bold italic underline | fontselect,
            fontsizeselect  | forecolor backcolor | alignleft alignright |
            aligncenter alignjustify | indent outdent | bullist numlist table |
            | link image media | codesample |
            ''',
    'toolbar2': '''
            visualblocks visualchars |
            charmap hr pagebreak nonbreaking anchor |  code |
            ''',
    'contextmenu': 'formats | link image',
    'menubar': True,
    'statusbar': True,
}

here in configuration dictionary you can customise editor by changing values like theme and many more.

setting TinyMCE is done now to bring it into actions we need forms.py file with some required values like needed size of input field it is used by displaying content on html page

from django import forms
from tinymce import TinyMCE
from .models import _your_model_


class TinyMCEWidget(TinyMCE):
    def use_required_attribute(self, *args):
        return False


class PostForm(forms.ModelForm):
    content = forms.CharField(
        widget=TinyMCEWidget(
            attrs={'required': False, 'cols': 30, 'rows': 10}
        )
    )
    class Meta:
        model = _your_model_
        fields = '__all__'

Last step is to add htmlfield to your model you can also use different field check out them on their official website

...
from tinymce.models import HTMLField 


class article(models.Model):
    ...
    content =  HTMLField()

And its all set just make migrations for see changes in admin page by running following commands

python manage.py makemigrations

python manage.py migrate

Now check it in admin area by running server 

python manage.py runserver

here how it will look like it may have different appearance