Floating Toolbar

A contextual toolbar that appears over selected text.

Installation

npx shadcx@latest add plate/floating-toolbar

Examples

Floating Toolbar

Floating Toolbar

The floating toolbar provides quick access to formatting options and actions for selected text.
How to use the floating toolbar:
  • Select any text to invoke the floating toolbar.
With the floating toolbar, you can:
  • Ask AI for assistance
  • Add a comment to the selected text
  • Turn a block type into another one
  • Apply text formatting: bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, code
Try selecting some text below to see the floating toolbar in action:
Bold text, italic text, underlined text, and combined formatting.
Files
components/demo.tsx
'use client';

import React from 'react';

import { Plate } from '@udecode/plate/react';

import { editorPlugins } from '@/components/editor/plugins/editor-plugins';
import { useCreateEditor } from '@/components/editor/use-create-editor';
import { Editor, EditorContainer } from '@/components/plate-ui/editor';

import { DEMO_VALUES } from './values/demo-values';

export default function Demo({ id }: { id: string }) {
  const editor = useCreateEditor({
    plugins: [...editorPlugins],
    value: DEMO_VALUES[id],
  });

  return (
    <Plate editor={editor}>
      <EditorContainer variant="demo">
        <Editor />
      </EditorContainer>
    </Plate>
  );
}

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