The UI Component library that launched with TinyMCE 5 gives users a brilliant and consistent experience. Just because you can, does that mean you should? Short answer, of course, longer answer… if you can make it look good. This opens up so much potential for developing complicated interfaces in an iframe but still have rich and user-friendly interactions with TinyMCE.īefore you go on, this is an advanced topic – if you’re new to working with TinyMCE 5 plugins, check out my “Hello World” blog post to get you started with writing a plugin.Īs always, refer to the Tiny URL Dialog documentation for full details.īut. Have TinyMCE send messages back to your iframe

The way the team have implemented this makes it incredibly easy to: It’s that last part that gets me excited. So let’s start with the basics: what exactly is it? It’s a new UI Component that allows you to open an external URL in an iframe, and have easy two-way messaging between TinyMCE (and any plugins you create) and the iframe itself. The Tiny team heard the outcry, and have implemented a new URL Dialog UI Component. When TinyMCE 5 launched, there was a bit of an outcry that iframe support for dialogs had been removed – so much so that it stopped many developers from upgrading.

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