How to remove buttons from CKeditor 4

Question

The question is in the title : How to remove buttons from CKeditor 4 .

Documentation does not answer it clearly

Answer 1

I finaly found how, but I don't like this way as instead of removing what you don't want, you define which buttons you want (and simply don't put what you don't want). When you call CKeditor.replace you can define the toolbar like so:

    CKEDITOR.replace( 'YOURE_TEXT_AREA_ID', {
    toolbar: [
    { name: 'document', groups: [ 'mode', 'document', 'doctools' ], items: [ 'Source', '-', 'Save', 'NewPage', 'Preview', 'Print', '-', 'Templates' ] },
    { name: 'clipboard', groups: [ 'clipboard', 'undo' ], items: [ 'Cut', 'Copy', 'Paste', 'PasteText', 'PasteFromWord', '-', 'Undo', 'Redo' ] },
    { name: 'editing', groups: [ 'find', 'selection', 'spellchecker' ], items: [ 'Find', 'Replace', '-', 'SelectAll', '-', 'Scayt' ] },
    { name: 'forms', items: [ 'Form', 'Checkbox', 'Radio', 'TextField', 'Textarea', 'Select', 'Button', 'ImageButton', 'HiddenField' ] },
    '/',
    { name: 'basicstyles', groups: [ 'basicstyles', 'cleanup' ], items: [ 'Bold', 'Italic', 'Underline', 'Strike', 'Subscript', 'Superscript', '-', 'RemoveFormat' ] },
    { name: 'paragraph', groups: [ 'list', 'indent', 'blocks', 'align', 'bidi' ], items: [ 'NumberedList', 'BulletedList', '-', 'Outdent', 'Indent', '-', 'Blockquote', 'CreateDiv', '-', 'JustifyLeft', 'JustifyCenter', 'JustifyRight', 'JustifyBlock', '-', 'BidiLtr', 'BidiRtl', 'Language' ] },
    { name: 'links', items: [ 'Link', 'Unlink', 'Anchor' ] },
    { name: 'insert', items: [ 'Image', 'Flash', 'Table', 'HorizontalRule', 'Smiley', 'SpecialChar', 'PageBreak', 'Iframe' ] },
    '/',
    { name: 'styles', items: [ 'Styles', 'Format', 'Font', 'FontSize' ] },
    { name: 'colors', items: [ 'TextColor', 'BGColor' ] },
    { name: 'tools', items: [ 'Maximize', 'ShowBlocks' ] },
    { name: 'others', items: [ '-' ] },
    { name: 'about', items: [ 'About' ] }
]
});

(For reference this is the standard full toolbar) Items represent buttons so simply delete the items you don't want. Thats it.

Is there any better answer ?

Answer 2

Based on reinmar answer and tested here is the better answer. Add this in your ckeditor config.js :

config.removeButtons = 'Underline,JustifyCenter';

For reference you can find the complete list of CKeditor 4 buttons there : http://ckeditor.com/comment/123266#comment-123266

Answer 3

In config.js file inside scripts/ckeditor/ of your project, just do the following way

config.removePlugins = 'elementspath,save,image,flash,iframe,link,smiley,tabletools,find,pagebreak,templates,about,maximize,showblocks,newpage,language';

config.removeButtons = 'Copy,Cut,Paste,Undo,Redo,Print,Form,TextField,Textarea,Button,SelectAll,NumberedList,BulletedList,CreateDiv,Table,PasteText,PasteFromWord,Select,HiddenField';

Answer 4

The first way to solve this problem

1. Go to node modules -> @ckeditor -> ckeditor-build-classic -> build ->ckeditor.js

Go or search for defaultConfig in ckeditor.js --- you will find out in the last few lines

Here remove the unwanted fields like table, media, etc

The second way to solve the problem

Here are the complete list:

defaultConfig={toolbar:{items:["heading","|","bold","italic","link","bulletedList","numberedList","|","indent","outdent","|","imageUpload","blockQuote","insertTable","mediaEmbed","undo","redo"]},image:{toolbar:["imageStyle:full","imageStyle:side","|","imageTextAlternative"]},table:{contentToolbar:["tableColumn","tableRow","mergeTableCells"]},language:"en"}}]).default}

Eg - remove the table from the Editor

defaultConfig={toolbar:{items:["heading","|","bold","italic","link","bulletedList","numberedList","|","indent","outdent","|","imageUpload","blockQuote","mediaEmbed","undo","redo"]},image:{toolbar:["imageStyle:full","imageStyle:side","|","imageTextAlternative"]},language:"en"}}]).default}

put in the constructor of the component.ts file

ClassicEditor.defaultConfig={toolbar:{items:["heading","|","bold","italic","link","bulletedList","numberedList","|","indent","outdent","|","imageUpload","blockQuote","mediaEmbed","undo","redo"]},image:{toolbar:["imageStyle:full","imageStyle:side","|","imageTextAlternative"]},language:"en"}}]).default}