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Text Color Plugin

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This plugin adds the forecolor/backcolor button controls that enable you to pick colors from a color picker and apply these to text. It adds a toolbar button to enable this functionality.

Type: String

Example
tinymce.init({
  selector: "textarea",  // change this value according to your html
  plugins: "textcolor",
  toolbar: "forecolor backcolor"
});

Options

These settings affect the execution of the textcolor plugin. The dimensions and mapping of the grid of text colors may be set here.

textcolor_cols

This option allows you to specify how many columns appear on the grid of text colors.

Type: String

Default Value: "8"

Example
tinymce.init({
  selector: "textarea",  // change this value according to your HTML
  plugins: "textcolor",
  toolbar: "forecolor backcolor",
  textcolor_cols: "5"
});

textcolor_rows

This option allows you to specify how many rows appear on the grid of text colors.

Type: String

Default Value: "5"

Example
tinymce.init({
  selector: "textarea",  // change this value according to your HTML
  plugins: "textcolor",
  toolbar: "forecolor backcolor",
  textcolor_rows: "4"
});

textcolor_map

This option allows you to specify a map of the text colors that will appear in the grid.

Type: Array

Example
tinymce.init({
  selector: "textarea",  // change this value according to your HTML
  plugins: "textcolor",
  toolbar: "forecolor backcolor",
  textcolor_map: [
    "000000", "Black",
    "993300", "Burnt orange",
    "333300", "Dark olive",
    "003300", "Dark green",
    "003366", "Dark azure",
    "000080", "Navy Blue",
    "333399", "Indigo",
    "333333", "Very dark gray",
    "800000", "Maroon",
    "FF6600", "Orange",
    "808000", "Olive",
    "008000", "Green",
    "008080", "Teal",
    "0000FF", "Blue",
    "666699", "Grayish blue",
    "808080", "Gray",
    "FF0000", "Red",
    "FF9900", "Amber",
    "99CC00", "Yellow green",
    "339966", "Sea green",
    "33CCCC", "Turquoise",
    "3366FF", "Royal blue",
    "800080", "Purple",
    "999999", "Medium gray",
    "FF00FF", "Magenta",
    "FFCC00", "Gold",
    "FFFF00", "Yellow",
    "00FF00", "Lime",
    "00FFFF", "Aqua",
    "00CCFF", "Sky blue",
    "993366", "Red violet",
    "FFFFFF", "White",
    "FF99CC", "Pink",
    "FFCC99", "Peach",
    "FFFF99", "Light yellow",
    "CCFFCC", "Pale green",
    "CCFFFF", "Pale cyan",
    "99CCFF", "Light sky blue",
    "CC99FF", "Plum"
  ]
});

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