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All About Rich Text Editor

Updated: Feb 1, 2020

In most areas of the system where text can be entered, you can control the appearance of your text using a rich text editor. The rich-text editor toolbar has icons for formatting and editing your text. The software can be used to include links, audio, video, images as well as text.


Thousands of companies have integrated rich-text editor into e-learning, web e-mail, content management systems, discussion forums, and other applications. Additionally, it also allows developers to easily customize and extend the editor. This powerful word-processing tool allows you to create, load, modify, print and export rich text documents in various other formats. The Rich Edit Control processes text with any text direction. Its other numerous features include field support, import and export options, conversion between different measurement units, etc.


Document Elements:


A document developed by the rich text editor consists of elements visible to end-users. They vary from the simplest objects forming the text to more complex ones containing other elements. These are:


Paragraphs: The portions of text can be organized by a specific collection of characters.


Fields: Placeholders can get added to a document. Fields can be used to perform a variety of operations, including Mail Merge and Table of Contents.


Lists: Here the paragraphs are linearly organized. You can group any paragraph into a numbered, bulleted, or multilevel list in code or with UI.


Tables: The rich text editor supports complex tables where the paragraph is formatted in aligned columns and rows. Tables can be added, modified, and deleted in code or the UI.


Pictures: Rich Edit Control supports different image formats. Pictures can be inserted within the text, behind or above it.


Shapes: The software supports the shape of all types - from simple lines and rectangles to shapes with advanced effects. All shapes can be resized, rotated, and moved.


Comments: You can add notes with additional content. Comments can make a document more understandable.


Hyperlinks and Bookmarks: You can link to a specific place within the document, existing web page or file.


Checkboxes: Interactive form fields are used to create fillable forms.


Developer Guidelines:

Rich text editor carries out various features that allow you to create powerful and fully customizable text editing application like


  • A variety of Events to track end-user actions to perform necessary operations.

  • A comprehensive set of Services to build feature-rich applications.

  • The autocorrect service analyzes the entered text and automatically fixes errors based on specific permissions and rules.

  • Three types of protection to prevent end-users from modifying the document, like paragraph or character formatting, printing, or clipboard operations.

  • The Spell Checking feature allows the rich text editor to highlight words with possible errors that were not fixed by auto-correction.


SubSystems TE Edit control is a robust, feature-rich, and time-tested RTF editor component. The advanced RTF component is available for .NET, Win32, Win64, Html/Javascript, and Java environments.


Our component software comes with easy installation and can be delivered in a zip file. To install you only need to copy the content of the zip folder to an empty folder on your computer and then follow the instruction for the product usage.

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