Getting started

Get Summernote

Compiled CSS, JS

The fastest way to get Summernote is to download the precompiled and minified versions of our CSS and JavaScript. No documentation or original source code files are included.

Download compiled

Download source code

Get the latest Summernote LESS and Javascript source code by downloading it directly from GitHub. Download

Clone or Fork via Github

Visit us on GitHub to clone or fork the Summernote project. project

Installation

Requires HTML5 doctype

Bootstrap uses certain HTML elements and CSS properties which require HTML5 doctype. Include <!DOCTYPE html> in the beginning of all your projects.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
...
</html>

Include js/css

Summernote uses the Open Source libraries jQuery and Bootstrap, if you are using the Boostrap 3 or 4 versions of Summernote, or just jQuery if you use the Lite version of Summernote. Include the Following code in the head area of your HTML page.

<!-- include libraries(jQuery, bootstrap) -->
<link href="https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.4.1/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.5.1.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.4.1/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>

<!-- include summernote css/js -->
<link href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/summernote@0.9.0/dist/summernote.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/summernote@0.9.0/dist/summernote.min.js"></script>

Don’t forget to change the file’s path if you downloaded summernote in a different folders.

You can however, and a lot of developers do these days, is include the stylesheet’s within the head are of your page, and include the Javascript at the bottom of your page, but before the closing body tag.

Fontawesome dependency

After v0.8.0, You don’t have to include fontawesome for displaying Summernote’s icons. But You can still use fontawesome for your custom icons. For more details, please visit custom buttons section. After v0.8.18, You have the possibility to override summernote icons with your custom ones. For more details, please visit custom icons section.

Embed

Summernote can be used with or without a form.

To use without a form, we suggest using a div in the body; this element will then be used where you want the Summernote editor to be rendered within your page.

<div id="summernote">Hello Summernote</div>

To use within a form, is pretty much the same as above, but rather than a div, we recommend using a textarea element inside a form, which should include a name attribute so when the form is submitted you can use that name to process the editors data on your backend. Also, if using Summernote inside a form to set the attribute method="post" to allow larger sized editor content to parse to the backend, if you don’t your data either may not parse, or will be truncated.

<form method="post">
  <textarea id="summernote" name="editordata"></textarea>
</form>

Run summernote

Run the script below when document is ready!

$(document).ready(function() {
  $('#summernote').summernote();
});

The $(document).ready function is particularly necessary if you include the Javascript at the end of the document.

Simple example

You can also test running example. Save below code as index.html and open it with your browser.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="UTF-8">
  <title>Summernote</title>
  <link href="https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.4.1/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
  <script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.5.1.min.js"></script>
  <script src="https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.4.1/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
  <link href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/summernote@0.9.0/dist/summernote.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
  <script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/summernote@0.9.0/dist/summernote.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
  <div id="summernote"><p>Hello Summernote</p></div>
  <script>
    $(document).ready(function() {
        $('#summernote').summernote();
    });
  </script>
</body>
</html>

For Bootstrap 4

You can also use Summernote with Bootstrap 4 using summernote-bs4.js and summernote-bs4.css.

<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <title>Summernote with Bootstrap 4</title>
    <script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.5.1.min.js" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
    <script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/popper.js@1.16.0/dist/umd/popper.min.js" integrity="sha384-Q6E9RHvbIyZFJoft+2mJbHaEWldlvI9IOYy5n3zV9zzTtmI3UksdQRVvoxMfooAo" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>

    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.4.1/css/bootstrap.min.css" integrity="sha384-Vkoo8x4CGsO3+Hhxv8T/Q5PaXtkKtu6ug5TOeNV6gBiFeWPGFN9MuhOf23Q9Ifjh" crossorigin="anonymous">
    <script src="https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.4.1/js/bootstrap.min.js" integrity="sha384-wfSDF2E50Y2D1uUdj0O3uMBJnjuUD4Ih7YwaYd1iqfktj0Uod8GCExl3Og8ifwB6" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>

    <link href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/summernote@0.9.0/dist/summernote-bs4.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/summernote@0.9.0/dist/summernote-bs4.min.js"></script>
  </head>
  <body>
    <div id="summernote"></div>
    <script>
      $('#summernote').summernote({
        placeholder: 'Hello Bootstrap 4',
        tabsize: 2,
        height: 100
      });
    </script>
  </body>
</html>

For bootstrap 5

You can also use Summernote with Bootstrap 5 using summernote-bs5.js and summernote-bs5.css.

<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <title>Summernote with Bootstrap 5</title>
    <!-- include libraries(jQuery, bootstrap) -->
    <script type="text/javascript" src="//code.jquery.com/jquery-3.6.0.min.js"></script>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="//cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/bootstrap@5.0.2/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css" />
    <script type="text/javascript" src="cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/bootstrap@5.0.2/dist/js/bootstrap.bundle.min.js"></script>

    <!-- include summernote css/js-->
    <link href="summernote-bs5.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <script src="summernote-bs5.js"></script>

  </head>
  <body>
    <div id="summernote"></div>
    <script>
      $('#summernote').summernote({
        placeholder: 'Hello Bootstrap 5',
        tabsize: 2,
        height: 100
      });
    </script>
  </body>
</html>

Without Bootstrap (lite)

You can use Summernote without Bootstrap using summernote-lite.js and summernote-lite.css.

<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <title>without bootstrap</title>
    <script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.4.1.slim.min.js" integrity="sha384-J6qa4849blE2+poT4WnyKhv5vZF5SrPo0iEjwBvKU7imGFAV0wwj1yYfoRSJoZ+n" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
    <link href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/summernote@0.9.0/dist/summernote-lite.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/summernote@0.9.0/dist/summernote-lite.min.js"></script>
  </head>
  <body>
    <div id="summernote"></div>
    <script>
      $('#summernote').summernote({
        placeholder: 'Hello stand alone ui',
        tabsize: 2,
        height: 120,
        toolbar: [
          ['style', ['style']],
          ['font', ['bold', 'underline', 'clear']],
          ['color', ['color']],
          ['para', ['ul', 'ol', 'paragraph']],
          ['table', ['table']],
          ['insert', ['link', 'picture', 'video']],
          ['view', ['fullscreen', 'codeview', 'help']]
        ]
      });
    </script>
  </body>
</html>

Basic API

Initialize Summernote

$('#summernote').summernote();

Initialize Summernote with options

Height and Focus

If you set focus option, cursor will focus editable area after initialize Summernote.

$('#summernote').summernote({
  height: 300, // set editor height
  minHeight: null, // set minimum height of editor
  maxHeight: null, // set maximum height of editor
  focus: true // set focus to editable area after initializing summernote
});

If you set height, you can see resizebar below.

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If you don’t set the height, editable area’s height will change according to contents.

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Destroy

Destroy Summernote.

$('#summernote').summernote('destroy');

get & set Code

Get the HTML contents of the first summernote in the set of matched elements.

var markupStr = $('#summernote').summernote('code');

If you initialize multiple editor, You can get the HTML content of the second summernote with jQuery eq.

var markupStr = $('.summernote').eq(1).summernote('code');

A string of HTML to set as the content of each matched element.

var markupStr = 'hello world';
$('#summernote').summernote('code', markupStr);

for more detail api: deep dive with api

destroy and code

After v0.7.0, direct jquery methods, destroy and code were removed for avoiding conflict with other jquery libraries. You can call this methods with summernote api.

i18n support

Language

Include libraries with lang file. eg) summernote-ko-KR.js.

<link href="https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.4.1/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.5.1.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.4.1/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>

<link href="summernote.css" rel="stylesheet">
<script src="summernote.min.js"></script>

<!-- include summernote-ko-KR -->
<script src="lang/summernote-ko-KR.js"></script>

Run the script with locale option.

$(document).ready(function() {
$('#summernote').summernote({
lang: 'ko-KR' // default: 'en-US'
});
});

More Summernote languages: languages

Integration

3rd parties available in django, rails, angular and so on.

Django

Handy update for your django admin page.

React

To use Summernote with React, you can use react-summernote package.

react-summernote