Text Direction

The Text Direction extension allows you to change the text direction of your editor.

Usage

import { RichTextProvider } from 'reactjs-tiptap-editor'

// Base Kit
import { Document } from '@tiptap/extension-document'
import { Text } from '@tiptap/extension-text'
import { Paragraph } from '@tiptap/extension-paragraph'
import { Dropcursor, Gapcursor, Placeholder, TrailingNode } from '@tiptap/extensions'
import { HardBreak } from '@tiptap/extension-hard-break'
import { TextStyle } from '@tiptap/extension-text-style';
import { ListItem } from '@tiptap/extension-list';

// Extension
import { TextDirection, RichTextTextDirection } from 'reactjs-tiptap-editor/textdirection'; 
// ... other extensions


// Import CSS
import 'reactjs-tiptap-editor/style.css';

const extensions = [
  // Base Extensions
  Document,
  Text,
  Dropcursor,
  Gapcursor,
  HardBreak,
  Paragraph,
  TrailingNode,
  ListItem,
  TextStyle,
  Placeholder.configure({
    placeholder: 'Press \'/\' for commands',
  })

  ...
  // Import Extensions Here
  TextDirection
];

const RichTextToolbar = () => {
  return (
    <div className="flex items-center gap-2 flex-wrap border-b border-solid">
      <RichTextTextDirection /> {}
    </div>
  )
}

const App = () => {
   const editor = useEditor({
    textDirection: 'auto', // global text direction
    extensions,
  });

  return (
    <RichTextProvider
      editor={editor}
    >
      <RichTextToolbar />

      <EditorContent
        editor={editor}
      />
    </RichTextProvider>
  );
};

Configuration

• Refer to the following example to configure the Text Direction extension. tiptap-text-direction

• Require: set global auto direction in Editor options to enable command for auto text direction.

const editor = new Editor({
  extensions: [StarterKit],
  textDirection: 'auto', // or 'ltr', 'rtl'
})

Source

Source • Docs

Contributors

Hung Hoang

Changelog

v1.0.0 on 12/7/2025

51948 - feat: refactor code, dynamic bubble, toolbar, fix error

v0.4.0 on 12/4/2025

6a3a7 - feat: migrate tiptap v2 to v3