The React Block Editor is a fully skinned, Notion-like editor for React that can be embedded in minutes, complete with a rich block palette, built-in themes, keyboard navigation, and accessibility support. It helps developers save weeks of UI scaffolding and boilerplate code while enabling users to easily create structured, interactive content.
Add the React Block Editor to your app with just a few lines of code: With built-in blocks, formatting tools, and theming, you’ll be up and running in no time, ready to deliver modern, structured editing experiences with enterprise reliability.
import { BlockEditorComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-blockeditor';
export default function App() {
return <BlockEditorComponent id="block-editor" />;
}The React Block Editor supports a comprehensive range of block types to create structured, rich content. The slash command menu offers a quick way to insert or switch between blocks simply by typing “/”. This Notion-style interaction reduces UI clutter, accelerates writing, and encourages structured authoring patterns.
Paragraph blocks allow users to enter rich text with full formatting support, including inline code, links, mentions, and labels. This saves developers from building and maintaining separate formatting controls while providing users a familiar editing experience.
Heading blocks offer four semantic levels (H1–H4), and automatically generate accessible and structured document outlines. They enhance readability, improve SEO, and make it easier for screen readers and assistive technology to parse large documents.
Toggle paragraphs enable users to collapse and expand content sections, helping keep long pages clean and digestible. This functionality is perfect for FAQs and technical guides where readers may want to reveal details only when needed.
Toggle heading blocks combine the heading structure with the collapsible toggle . This hybrid format empowers content creators to design advanced layouts for wikipedia, product documents, or internal playbooks without pagination.
Checklist blocks provide interactive to-do lists with clickable checkboxes to mark completed items . They’re ideal for content that doubles as task management, such as editorial workflows, requirements tracking, or onboarding checklists.
Bullet lists support hierarchical nesting and help organize content into clear, unordered points. They’re great for idea dumps, key takeaways, or brainstorming notes, with deep nesting enabling complex structures.
Numbered list blocks provide automatic sequencing with support for nesting and reordering. This makes it easy to create clean, step-by-step instructions, reducing errors in documentation or procedural guides.
Quote blocks let authors highlight important text or citations with styled formatting. They improve visual hierarchy and reinforce authority, especially when referencing people, publications, or design principles.
Divider blocks insert horizontal rules to break up content into logical sections. This small addition significantly improves readability and user focus, especially in long-form content.
Callout blocks use colored backgrounds and icons to draw attention to tips, warnings, or important notes. These help prevent user error and reinforce critical information without interrupting the content flow.
Code blocks preserve indentation and syntax highlighting for displaying multi-line programming code or configuration samples. They’re essential for developer documentation, API guides, and tutorials.
Image blocks allow users to upload and resize images inline, with alt text support for accessibility. This lets content creators tell richer visual stories while remaining WCAG-compliant.
The React Block Editor provides comprehensive built-in toolbars with essential text formatting options. The inline toolbar appears when text is selected, offering quick access to formatting tools including bold, italic, underline, subscript, superscript, text case transformations (uppercase, lowercase). It also has color customization options for both text color and background color, which streamlines the editing experience.
The inline formatting toolbar appears when users select text, offering formatting options like bold, italic, underline, text color, background color, and case transformation. By keeping these tools within reach, users stay focused on content creation without reaching for a toolbar.
The intuitive menu systems provide quick access to the block management options. These menus enhance productivity by keeping essential tools within easy reach.
The action menu appears when hovering over a block, providing quick access to duplicate, delete, or transform actions. This eliminates the need for context-switching or modal dialogs and improves speed for power users managing long documents.
The context menu, accessible via right-click, brings familiar editing options like cut, copy, paste, and more. This traditional interaction model speeds up onboarding and keeps advanced tools close to the user’s cursor.
The Block Editor supports various types of inline content elements that can be embedded within text blocks, which enhances the richness and functionality of your content:
Plain text content forms the foundation of all blocks. This is the standard text content that supports all formatting options like bold, italic, underline, and color styling.
Hyperlink elements allow users to insert clickable links within text. Links can point to external URLs, internal pages, or email addresses, making content interactive and connected.
Inline code snippets display programming code or technical terms with monospace formatting and syntax highlighting. They are perfect for embedding code references within paragraphs without creating separate code blocks.
User mention functionality enables referencing specific users or entities within the content. Mentions typically appear with special styling and can trigger notifications or provide user context.
Label or tag elements provide categorization and metadata within content. Labels help organize information and can be used for tagging, categorization, or adding contextual information to text.
Drag-and-drop allows users to rearrange blocks visually or via keyboard with clear drop indicators. This enables technical and non-technical users to reorganize content fluidly, maintaining structure without assistance.
Clipboard operations in the React Block Editor preserve the structure and formatting of each block. This ensures consistency and prevents content corruption, especially in documents composed of many block types.
The built-in undo/redo manager tracks editing history at a granular level, letting users safely reverse or reapply changes. Developers can configure the undo depth and behavior, providing flexibility while encouraging experimentation in content creation.
Styled documents can be printed programmatically using a single call, preserving all visual formatting. This enables teams to generate offline documentation, reports, or audit trails without exporting or reformatting manually.
Touch support and responsive design allow the editor to work seamlessly on mobile phones and tablets. With gesture-based interactions and adaptive layout, users enjoy a consistent experience across all form factors.
The editor includes built-in themes for Tailwind CSS, Bootstrap 5/4, Material, Fluent, Fabric, and high contrast. Developers can apply themes instantly or customize tokens to align with their brand, significantly reducing design work.
A rich set of developer APIs lets teams access into every stage of the block lifecycle, event system, and serialization logic. This makes adding custom blocks, extending menu actions, or integrating AI functionality easily without rebuilding the editor from scratch.
Accessibility is built into the fundamental structure of the React Block Editor. It supports keyboard navigation, WAI-ARIA roles, and RTL layouts helping developers meet compliance standards and serve a global user base.
This component is accessible using the keyboard. Major features like block addition, block actions, indent, select, and formatting can be performed using keyboard commands. This helps create highly accessible applications.
The React Block Editor view has complete WAI-ARIA accessibility support. The UI includes high-contrast visual elements that help visually impaired people to have the best viewing experience. Also, valid UI descriptions are easily accessible through assistive technologies such as screen readers.
The React Block Editor supports RTL rendering, allowing the text direction and layout of the editor to be displayed from right to left. This improves the user experience and accessibility for RTL languages such as Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew, etc.
The Block Editor is available for the Angular, JavaScript, Vue, ASP.NET Core, and ASP.NET MVC frameworks. Explore its platform-specific options through the following links:
The React Block Editor works well with all modern web browsers, including Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Safari, and Opera.
Syncfusion React Block Editor provides the following features:
We do not sell the React Block Editor separately. It is only available for purchase as part of the Syncfusion team license. This contains over 1,900 components and frameworks, including the React Block Editor. The price of the team license starts at $395 per month for 5 developers, and includes support and updates until the subscription expires. In addition, we might offer discounts based on currently active promotions. Please contact our product specialists today to see if you qualify for any additional discounts.
You can find our React Block Editor demo, which demonstrates how to render and configure the Block Editor.
A React Block Editor is a block-based editor that structures content using modular, movable blocks—like paragraphs, images, lists, and code. This editing approach offers greater flexibility and control compared to traditional rich text editors, making it ideal for modern web apps like documentation tools, wikis, and content builders.
Yes. The editor includes developer-friendly APIs to create, register, and render custom block types. You can extend existing behaviors or build new content elements like embedded widgets, diagrams, or AI prompts.
You can instantly apply themes like Tailwind CSS, Bootstrap 5/4, Material, Fluent, Fabric, or high contrast. You can customize styles via tokens or CSS overrides to match your app’s design system.
Yes, you can integrate the editor with Redux or other form/state management systems by hooking into editor events, serialization, or change tracking APIs.
Yes. You can print the editor’s content programmatically with styling intact. You can convert the block data into HTML or integrate custom export workflows for exporting.
No, our 1,900+ components and frameworks for web, mobile, and desktop, including our React Block Editor, are not sold individually. They are only available as part of a team license. However, we have competitively priced the product, so it only costs a little bit more than what some other vendors charge for their Block Editor component alone. We have also found that, in our experience, our customers usually start off using one of our products and then expand to several products quickly, so we felt it was best to offer all 1,900+ components and frameworks for a subscription fee that starts at $395 per month for a team of 5 developers. Additionally, we might be able to offer discounts based on currently active promotions. Please contact our product specialists today to see if you qualify for any additional discounts.
No, this is a commercial product and requires a paid license. However, a free community license is also available for companies and individuals whose organizations have less than $1 million USD in annual gross revenue, 5 or fewer developers, and 10 or fewer total employees.
A good place to start would be our comprehensive getting started documentation.
Traditional editors treat content as a single flow of text. The React Block Editor separates content into independent blocks (e.g., paragraph, image, checklist), allowing for more flexibility, better structure, and enhanced user control over layout and formatting.
Absolutely. The React Block Editor includes WAI-ARIA roles, full keyboard navigation, high-contrast themes, and RTL support, ensuring it’s usable by all users and meets accessibility standards by default.
Yes. It’s fully responsive and touch-friendly, supporting gestures and adaptive layouts for seamless editing across desktops, tablets, and smartphones.
The editor provides serialization APIs that output content in a structured JSON format. This can be stored in your backend, used in version control, or transformed into HTML or Markdown.
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