TinyMCE

TinyMCE is an online rich-text editor released as open-source software under the GNU General Public License version 2 or later.^[4] TinyMCE uses a freemium business model that includes a free Core editor and paid plans with advanced features.^[5] It converts HTML textarea fields, or other designated HTML elements, into editor instances.

TinyMCE

TinyMCE running with the default skin
Developer(s)	Tiny Technologies Inc.
Initial release	1.0 / 11 March 2004; 21 years ago (2004-03-11)[1]
Stable release	7.8 / April 9, 2025
Repository	github.com/tinymce/tinymce
Written in	TypeScript
Operating system	Cross-platform
Type	HTML editor
License	GPL-2.0-only and commercial[i][3]
Website	www.tiny.cloud

TinyMCE is designed to integrate with JavaScript libraries such as React, Vue.js, Angular and StencilJS as well as content management systems such as Joomla!, and WordPress.^[6]

Browser compatibility

TinyMCE is compatible with the following browsers

• Google Chrome
• Mozilla Firefox
• Safari
• Microsoft Edge

It is compatible with these browsers on any operating system that officially supports the particular browser.^[7]

As of version 6.0, released 2022-03-03, support for Internet Explorer was dropped.^[7]

API

TinyMCE includes an extensive API for custom integration.^[8]

Plugins

TinyMCE uses plugins extensively.

Free and open source plugins

TinyMCE 7 shipped with 28 open source plugins^[9] including:

• List Styles
• Character Map
• Code
• Code Sample
• Directionality
• Preview
• Save
• Search and Replace
• Table
• Visual Blocks

Proprietary plugins

There are 30 proprietary plugins, only available from Tiny with a paid subscription for TinyMCE 7^[10] including:

• Accessibility Checker
• AI Assistant
• Enhanced Code Editor
• Enhanced Tables
• Export to PDF
• Export to Word
• Import from Word
• Link Checker
• Math Equations
• Markdown
• PowerPaste
• Revision History
• Spell Checker
• Templates

File management

TinyMCE is primarily a client-side application. It, consequently, does not include native file managers for various server technologies.

Multiple file manager solutions have been produced, including several open source file manager solutions, and at least two proprietary projects, developed by Tiny Technologies and EdSDK.

None of the open source file managers are still being developed or maintained and they are all incompatible with currently supported versions of TinyMCE.

Free and open source file managers

Open source file managers for use with TinyMCE

Project	Description	Compatibility	Notes
Open Manager	An Ajax file uploader and image gallery plugin	TinyMCE 3.x	The original developer closed this project some years ago and does not recommend it be used in production.[11] No others have forked and updated the code-base.
TinyBrowser	File manager featuring multiple file upload support.	TinyMCE 3.x	The uploader requires the, now deprecated, Adobe Flash.[12] Also, this project has not been updated since 2011.[13]
TinyCIMM	TinyMCE CodeIgniter Media Manager: a plugin for both TinyMCE and CodeIgniter, which allows image and media file management from within TinyMCE.	TinyMCE 3.x	The announcement page for this project is a, now-archived, ExpressionEngine CMS forum page.[14] Also, the demo and download page, as of 2023-02-02, returns a 404 error.[15]
IMCE	An image and file uploader and browser for rich text editors that supports personal directories and quotas.	TinyMCE 3.x	Being actively developed as of 2023-02 but no further updates to TinyMCE support and no support for versions of TinyMCE beyond 3.x.[16]
PDW Media Browser	A media browser with a Windows 7-style user interface.	TinyMCE 3.x	No longer being actively developed[17] and no longer available from the original developer's site because 'it isn't safe to use anymore.'[18]
Responsive File Manager	A file manager and image manager made with the jQuery library, CSS3, PHP and HTML5.	TinyMCE 5.x,[19] TinyMCE 4.x, and TinyMCE 3.x	Released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License which requires a payment to the author for use in a commercial project or setting.[20]

Proprietary file managers

Proprietary file managers for use with TinyMCE

Project	Description	Compatibility	Notes
Flmngr	PHP File Manager with Image Editor and Amazon S3 and Azure Blob support.	TinyMCE 6.x, TinyMCE 5.x, and TinyMCE 4.x.[21]	Free for one website with up to 15 end-users. Requires a paid subscription or paid license for more features or more sites and users.[22]
MoxieManager	File and image management for TinyMCE.	TinyMCE 6.x[23] and TinyMCE 5.x.[24]	Requires a commercial TinyMCE subscription.[23] Only provided for self-hosted TinyMCE instances.[23]

Third-party TinyMCE plugins

Third-party TinyMCE plugins

Name	Description	Compatibility	Notes
After the deadline	A spelling, style, and grammar checking software service with a TinyMCE plugin.	TinyMCE 3.x.[25]	After the Deadline (AtD) is no longer actively maintained and the hosted service has shut down. The source code is available to self-host an AtD server.[26]
Bootstrap plugin for TinyMCE	Use Bootstrap components and CSS in TinyMCE[27]	TinyMCE 5.x (using Bootstrap 4) and TinyMCE 6.x (using Bootstrap 5)[28]	Requires a paid license for use.[29]
CodeMirror	A code editor web component,[30] available as (among other things) a TinyMCE plugin.[31]	TinyMCE 4.x, TinyMCE 5.x, and TinyMCE 6.x.[31]	Released under the open source MIT License.[32]
N1ED	Visual editor for block-by-block content creation.[33]	TinyMCE 4.x, TinyMCE 5.x, and TinyMCE 6.x.[34]	Base editor is free for one site and up to five users. Requires a paid subscription for premium features, multiple sites, and more users.[35]
PDW Toggle Toolbars	Shows and hides TinyMCE toolbars.[36]	TinyMCE 4.x.[37]	No specific licence. The source includes boilerplate permissions copied from the MIT Licence.[38]
TextareaAI ChatGPT plugin	ChatGPT copywriting plugin for TinyMCE.[39]	TinyMCE 4.x, TinyMCE 5.x, and TinyMCE 6.x.[40]	Free for the first 2,500 words generated by a query to the ChatGPT API. Requires a paid subscription or paid license for more words and users.[41]
TinyMCE 6.x ChatGPT Plugin	Integrates ChatGPT into TinyMCE.[42]	TinyMCE 6.x[42]	Released under the open source MIT License.[43]

Language support

• 65 different community-contributed language packs, including right-to-left support, are available for TinyMCE 7.^[44]
• 38 different professionally localized language packs, including right-to-left support, are provided to paid Tiny Cloud and elf-hosted deployments of TinyMCE 7.^[45]

Product support

Community peer-to-peer support for TinyMCE is available on platforms such as GitHub and Stack Overflow. Product support is available when purchasing any subscription with TinyMCE.

Official support for TinyMCE 5.10 (the last version 5 release) ended on 2023-04-20.^[46]

Themes and skins

In TinyMCE, themes and skins refer to different aspects of the editor. A theme relates to the editor's construction, while a skin make changes to the appearance of the editor.

In TinyMCE 5.x, the default theme is called Silver,^[47] and the default skin is called Oxide.^[48]

In TinyMCE 5.x, the default theme is called Silver,^[47] and the default skin is called Oxide.^[48]

In TinyMCE 6.x the default theme is also called Silver,^[49] and the default skin is also called Oxide.^[50]

Skins for TinyMCE 5 or 6 can be created and customized with TinyMCE's interactive skin tool.^[51]

In Version 4 of TinyMCE, the first skin tool was created and more skins were made available in the skin/plugin repository.

TinyMCE 2.x→3.x offered various ways to customize the look and feel of the editor. TinyMCE 3.x came packaged with two themes, simple and advanced, as well as two skins for each theme, default and o2k7.

Compressor

TinyMCE also has an optional compressor pack to reduce the overall script download footprint, in the time it takes the script to initialize. The compressor pack is available for PHP, ASPX, JSP, and CFML. A third-party Ruby on Rails compressor pack is also available.^[52]

History

TinyMCE was spun out of a content management system developed by Johan “Spocke” Sorlin and Joakim Lindkvist from their original content management system, Moxiecode Content Editor, ^[53] in 2004.

Release history

Legend:

Old version, not maintained

Old version, still maintained

Latest version

Latest preview version

Future version

Version	Release Date	Notes
Old version, not maintained: 1.0	March 11, 2004[1]
Old version, not maintained: 1.1	May 26, 2004[54]
Old version, not maintained: 1.2	July 5, 2004[55]
Old version, not maintained: 1.3	September 10, 2004[56]
Old version, not maintained: 1.4	January 9, 2005[57]
Old version, not maintained: 2.0	December 1, 2005[58]
Old version, not maintained: 2.1	February 13, 2007[59]
Old version, not maintained: 3.0	January 30, 2008[60]
Old version, not maintained: 3.1	June 17, 2008[61]
Old version, not maintained: 3.2	September 11, 2008[62]
Old version, not maintained: 3.3	March 10, 2010[63]
Old version, not maintained: 3.4	March 10, 2011[64]
Old version, not maintained: 3.5	May 5, 2012[65]
Old version, not maintained: 4.0	June 16, 2013[66]	Rewrite of UI layer and editor core APIs
Old version, not maintained: 4.1	June 18, 2014[67]	HTML5 Scheme support
Old version, not maintained: 4.2	June 25, 2015[68]	Flat skin. Image tools for crop, resize and filters
Old version, not maintained: 4.3	November 25, 2015[69]	Table column/row resize support and inline table toolbar, notifications API, APIs for creating non-editable widgets
Old version, not maintained: 4.4	June 30, 2016[70]	Medium-style theme, improved image editor
Old version, not maintained: 4.5	November 30, 2016[71]	Sidebar panel and insert menu UI, enhanced anchor linking, table of contents plugin
Old version, not maintained: 4.6	May 4, 2017[72]	Enhanced link editing, new help plugin, dropped support for IE 8/9/10
Old version, not maintained: 4.7	October 3, 2017[73]	Enhanced modern theme, new mobile theme
Old version, not maintained: 4.8	July 11, 2018[74]
Old version, not maintained: 4.9	November 7, 2018[75]
Old version, not maintained: 5.0	February 4, 2019[76]	Completely new UI layer
Old version, not maintained: 5.1	October 17, 2019[77]	All default UI components now work on mobile natively
Old version, not maintained: 5.2	February 3, 2020[78]	Placeholder. New toolbar options. Accessibility enhancements.
Old version, not maintained: 5.3	June 11, 2020[79]	New toolbar location default settings, moved the enabled checkmark on toggle menu items
Old version, not maintained: 5.4	July 23, 2020[80]	Updates and additions to the Table plugin
Old version, not maintained: 5.5	October 20, 2020[81]	TinyMCE core Typescript types are now public
Old version, not maintained: 5.6	December 8, 2020[82]	New images_file_types option for customizing recognized image file extensions
Old version, not maintained: 5.7	February 24, 2021[83]	Added support for table_column_resizing when inserting and deleting table columns
Old version, not maintained: 5.8	May 5, 2021[84]	TinyMCE core editor update, additional changes to premium plugins, editor resize handle now controllable using the keyboard.
Old version, not maintained: 5.9	August 25, 2021[85]	TinyMCE core editor update, improved table management, announces deprecation of various plugins.
Old version, not maintained: 5.10	October 10, 2021[86]	TinyMCE core editor update, new API checks if a URI is safe to insert into the DOM, additional deprecation announcements.
Old version, still maintained: 6.0	March 3, 2022[87]	Multiple new and changed APIs, support for Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 dropped, licence change: TinyMCE now released under the MIT License.
Old version, still maintained: 6.1	June 6, 2022[88]	New event log API, new option to show a specified sidebar on editor launch, multiple added options and functions.
Old version, still maintained: 6.2	September 8, 2022[89]	New option for specifying which non-editable elements can be format-wrapped, new option for adding search fields to toolbar menu buttons, new commercial plugins for footnotes, mail-merge fields, and typo autocorrection.
Old version, still maintained: 6.3.1	December 6, 2022[90]	New option in the commercial Advanced Code editor plugin for opening said source-code editor in the edit window rather than a nested dialog box, two new API functions for selecting words from the insertion point location, new commercial plugins for generating inline css, and for formatting a document with so-called 'smart' typography. Also includes a fix for a cross-site scripting vulnerability, CVE-2022-23494.[91]
Old version, still maintained: 6.4.0	March 16, 2023[92]	New tree component for use in custom dialogs; new commercial Advanced Templates plugin; new API methods; new xss_sanitization option to disable XSS sanitization; and new UI objects and options.
Old version, still maintained: 6.5	June 13, 2023[93]	New open source plugin, Accordion, creates expandable and collapsable document sections; updates to a dozen commercial plugins; in-application help text re-written and translated.
Old version, still maintained: 6.6	July 12, 2023[94]	New commercial plugin, AI Assistant, which can query OpenAI's ChatGPT chatbot (requires an OpenAI API key); new properties for controlling dialog box presentation, appearance, and behaviour.
Old version, still maintained: 6.7.0	August 30, 2023[95]	Updates to several proprietary plugins, including Accessibility Checker, Advanced Code, Advanced Templates, AI Assistant, and Table of Contents; two new commands: InsertNewBlockBefore and InsertNewBlockAfter; UI and UX improvements; and two dozen bug fixes and changes.
Old version, still maintained: 6.8	November 22, 2023[96]	Enhancements to Advanced Templates, improved bundling support, several accessibility improvements, as well as 24 bug fixes.
Old version, still maintained: 7.0	March 20, 2024[97]	New features that increase user-satisfaction and workflow efficiency: Markdown, Revision History, and Document Converters. License changed from MIT to GPL-2.0-only. TinyMCE 7.0 also carries 17 bug fixes.
Old version, still maintained: 7.1	May 8, 2024	Introduced Math Equation feature, new integrations for the AI Assistant and 22 bug fixes and minor enhancements.
Latest version: 7.3	August 7, 2024	Includes an accompanying release of the AI Assistant premium plugin that has Add "Translate" options .
Latest version: 7.4	October 9, 2024	Introduced a new context property for all ui components and a new option allow_mathml_annotation_encodings to opt-in to keep math annotations with specific encodings.
Latest version: 7.5	November 6, 2024	Improved color picker aria support

Notes

1. GPL-2.0-only since 2024-03-20. Some advanced features are under commercial licenses.^[2]