February 10, 2023 / Sitecore

Sitecore 10.2 Rich Text Field Button Options by Profile

When is a Rich Text Field in Sitecore not a Rich Text Field? When it has several button options that start with a Default profile (“Poor” Text Field) and range to the “uber rich” Rich Text Field of Full. This post will walk you through the four Rich Text Profiles (i.e. /sitecore/system/Settings/Html Editor Profiles/…), the buttons that come with each profile, and additional Rich Text Field options.

Contents

1 Rich Text Field Profiles
2 Buttons by Rich Text Editor Profile
3 Rich Text Editor Options Beyond the Profiles

Rich Text Field Profiles

There are four primary Rich Text Field Profiles that have a differing set of buttons as follows:

Rich Text Default – /sitecore/system/Settings/Html Editor Profiles/Rich Text Default
Rich Text Full – /sitecore/system/Settings/Html Editor Profiles/Rich Text Full
Rich Text IDE – /sitecore/system/Settings/Html Editor Profiles/Rich Text IDE
Rich Text Medium – /sitecore/system/Settings/Html Editor Profiles/Rich Text Medium

These are set on your template as a source for a Rich Text Field:

Buttons by Rich Text Editor Profile

The list of buttons available by the four profiles are as follows:

Rich Text Default

The Rich Text Default Profile has Design and HTML Editor Tabs with the following buttons:

Bold
Italic
Insert Sitecore Link
Insert Sitecore Media
Remove Link
Hyperlink Manager
Insert Symbol
Paste from Word, strip font
Undo
Redo
Find and Replace

Rich Text Full

The Rich Text Full Profile has Design and HTML Editor Tabs with the following buttons:

Print
Find and Replace
Cut
Copy
Paste
Paste from Word
Paste from Word, strip font
Paste Plain Text
Paste As Html
Format Stripper
Undo
Redo
Insert Sitecore Link
Insert Sitecore Media
Hyperlink Manager
Remove Link
Insert Table
Insert from Element
New Paragraph
Insert Date
Insert Symbol
Insert Time
Insert Code Snippet
Media Manager
Flash Manager
Bold
Italic
Underline
Align Left
Align Center
Align Right
Justify
Remove Alignment
Numbered List
Bullet List
Indent
Outdent
Strikethrough
Subscript
SuperScript
Foreground Color
Background Color
Horizontal Rule
Select All
Set Absolute Position
Show/Hide Border
Module Manager
AJAX Spellchecker
XHTML Validator
Help
Apply CSS Class
Paragraph Style
Font Name
Size
Custom Links
Zoom

Rich Text IDE

The Rich Text IDE Profile has no tabs and the following buttons:

Save
Print
Find and Replace
Repeat Last Command
Cut
Copy
Paste
Paste from Word
Paste from Word, strip font
Paste Plain Text
Paste As Html
Format Stripper
Undo
Redo
Insert Sitecore Link
Insert Sitecore Media
Hyperlink Manager
Remove Link
Insert Table
Insert from Element
New Paragraph
Insert Date
Insert Time
Insert Symbol
Insert Code Snippet
Bold
Italic
Underline
Align Left
Align Center
Align Right
Justify
Remove Alignment
Numbered List
Bullet List
Indent
Outdent
Strikethrough
Subscript
SuperScript
Foreground Color
Background Color
Horizontal Rule
Select All
Set Absolute Position
Show/Hide Border
Module Manager
Help
Apply CSS Class
Paragraph Style
Font Name
Size
Custom Links
Zoom

Rich Text Medium

The Rich Text Medium Profile has Design and HTML Editor Tabs with the following buttons:

Print
Find and Replace
Cut
Copy
Paste
Paste from Word
Paste from Word, strip font
Paste Plain Text
Paste As Html
Format Stripper
Undo
Redo
Insert Sitecore Link
Insert Sitecore Media
Hyperlink Manager
Remove Link
Insert Table
Insert Symbol
Insert Code Snippet
Bold
Italic
Underline
Align Left
Align Center
Align Right
Justify
Remove Alignment
Numbered List
Bullet List
Indent
Outdent
Strikethrough
Subscript
SuperScript
Horizontal Rule
Show/Hide Border
Module Manager
AJAX Spellchecker
Help
Apply CSS Class

Rich Text Editor Options Beyond the Profiles

In most cases you may find that the selected profiles meet your needs or provide too much power. A good example of too much power is enabling adding scripts via the Rich Text Editor. By default, users cannot add scripts and they are stripped out, so make sure this is set to true in your sitecore.config file.

<!-- HTML EDITOR REMOVE SCRIPTS
If true, the rich text editor removes script tags and inline scripts from RTE field     
values before saving. Setting the value to true reduces the potential for cross-site 
scripting and other script-related issues.
Default value: true
-->
<setting name="HtmlEditor.RemoveScripts" value="true" />

In instances where you may want to create custom profiles, or your own buttons, these could be created programmatically. However, you should carefully weigh the requirements… bearing in mind that the need to customize the CMS adds technical debt, requires governance, and must be tested as part of the upgrade cycle.

It may be better to leverage governance alongside selecting the best possible default profile to meet your needs versus running through technical hoops to reduce buttons you don’t want users to press.